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Country Postpones Legislative Elections
allAfrica.com - Thursday, November 01, 2007
s the latest target date for Guinea's overdue legislative election approaches, Guineans are waiting for the government to declare a new schedule. Observers say a poll is unlikely before March ... more
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GUINEA: Country awaits new date for legislative poll
Topix - Thursday, November 01, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"They were also under a lot of constraints; they were unable to move about and assemble as they wished. As a result they could not mobilise supporters." As the latest target date for Guinea's overdue legislative election approaches, Guineans are waiting for the government to declare... more
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Guinea memoir on prison 'horrors'
Topix - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The end product of which was the dehumanisation of its own citizens." During his rule, Toure suppressed opposition and free expression A former Guinean minister has launched a book about his ordeal in the country's most infamous prison. via BBC ... more
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Politics
Topix - Tuesday, October 30, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Ethiopian troops will not stay in Somalia forever" A two-day conference for women parliamentarians from Senegal, Guinea Conakry and Guinea Bissau opens in Bissau on Friday to discuss the effects of conflicts and suggest mechanisms to have lasting peace in ... via Panapress ... more
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Conman who faked president's voice sentenced
Topix - Sunday, October 28, 2007
p> A conman who stole petrol and other goods by playing fake tapes of Guinea's President Lansana Conte supposedly authorising the requisitions was jailed for three years on Friday. via Independent Online ... more
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Timeline: Guinea
Topix - Saturday, October 27, 2007
p> A chronology of key events 1891 - France declares Guinea to be a colony, separate from Senegal. via BBC ... more
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Over 50 African migrants feared dead in Atlantic
Topix - Friday, October 26, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There was an exhausted man who was waving and seven bodies. There was an unbearable stench, they must have been dead six or seven days" Rescuers have found the bodies of seven African migrants in a boat adrift in the Atlantic Ocean, while almost 50 others... more
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UN Humanitarian Fund Allocates $1 Million in Flood Relief Projects
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
he United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has allocated just over $1 million in aid to health, water purification and food security projects in Guinea, where hundreds of thousands of households are trying to recover from the effects of widespread flooding and avoid deadly cholera ... more
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GUINEA: Slight boost in water, electricity services but much to be done
Topix - Thursday, October 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Before, we could go for a week without electricity - ' often even as long as a month. For several weeks now, in many areas the power has been coming on nearly every day at 6pm." Residents in the Guinean capital, Conakry, say in some neighbourhoods... more
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Youths Protest Power Cuts
allAfrica.com - Thursday, October 25, 2007
Electricity for all or for nobody", chanted the 1,000 young protestors in Labé, central Guinea, as they marched on the town's state electricity office earlier this month, chased out the staff and barricaded the ... more
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GUINEA: Youths chase staff from state electricity offices, protesting power cuts
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Around 7pm, everyone rushes to get home. This means anyone who has a business or store in town cannot work past a certain time." LABE, 24 October 2007 - "Electricity for all or for nobody", chanted the 1,000 young protestors in Lab ©, central Guinea, as... more
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Slight Boost in Water, Electricity Services But Much to Be Done
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
n one of the poorest and most volatile neighbourhoods of Conakry new solar-panelled street lights line a boulevard for nearly three kilometres, the shiny lampposts standing out amid crumbling cinder block buildings and rutted dirt ... more
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Youths Chase Staff From State Electricity Offices, Protesting Power Cuts
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Electricity for all or for nobody", chanted the 1,000 young protestors in Labé, central Guinea, as they marched on the town's state electricity office earlier this month, chased out the staff and barricaded the ... more
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Hyperdynamics' Executives Meet With U.S. Ambassador Phillip Carter...
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p> In a private meeting Mr. Kourouma was formally introduced to Phillip Carter III, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Guinea. via PR-inside.com ... more
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Why U.S. Troops're in Gulf of Guinea, By Azazi
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
hief of Defence Staff, Lt. General Andrew Owoye Azazi yesterday allayed the fears of Nigerians on the continued presence of United States military in the Gulf of ... more
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BHP most likely bidder for Global Alumina: analyst
Topix - Friday, October 19, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"BHP would be the ones that have the most to gain" Global Alumina Corp. revealed yesterday that it is in talks with a potential buyer , and Jennings Capital analyst Ron Coll thinks one name clearly tops the list: BHP Billiton PLC. via National Post... more
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Most actively traded companies on Canadian stock markets
Topix - Friday, October 19, 2007
p> Some of the most active companies traded Thursday on the Toronto Stock Exchange and the TSX Venture Exchange: Toronto Stock Exchange : Global Alumina Corp. via Canadian Business Magazine ... more
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Makolo faces suspension?
Topix - Thursday, October 18, 2007
p> Young Zebras and Township Rollers left back, Boniface Zolo Makolo faces censure by FIFA following the game against Guinea in Conakry. via Latest News by the Government ... more
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Politics
Topix - Tuesday, October 16, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"AU/UN hybrid force lacks necessary equipment" Namibia has deported two US citizens and shut down an American mercenary firm for recruiting Namibians to work as 'security guards' in war torn Iraq and Afghanistan. via Panapress ... more
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Economy
Topix - Sunday, October 14, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Namibia's economic growth solid" Several personalities, including the Secretary General of the Francophony, Abdou Diouf and the president of the African Development Bank , Donald Kaberuka, will regularly contribute to a blog on development to ... via Panapress ... more
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