News Guinea: Guinea pigs can harbor a hidden health hazard
Been looking for a reason to turn down your child's pleas for a pet Guinea pig? Dutch researchers say the rodents may carry germs tied to serious pneumonia. But three adults in the Netherlands wound ...
News Guinea: Guinea junta chief headed for victory in presidential vote
Guineans voted in a presidential election Sunday with Mamady Doumbouya, a general who led the junta that seized power four years ago, the clear favourite, and the main opposition leaders barred from…
News Guinea: 56 people killed in stampede following clashes at a Guinea soccer match, authorities say
Fifty-six people were killed and several injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in southern Guinea following clashes between fans, Guinea’s government said Monday. Authorities are conducting an ...
News Guinea: Guinea: Opposition offices burned in Kankan
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Residents of the provincial city of Kankan say that the offices of an opposition leader were wrecked by government supporters. Kankan inhabitant Boubacar Kourouma said that ...
News Guinea: Guinea releases 16 soldiers and police officers from Sierra Leone after border dispute
Guinea on Friday released 16 soldiers and police officers from neighboring Sierra Leone who were arrested earlier this week in a border dispute, Sierra Leonean authorities said. “All security officers arrested by the Guinean authorities have been safely handed over to Sierra Leone,” Sierra Leone’s Ministry of Information said in a Facebook post. The release followed a visit to Guinea’s capital, Conakry, by a delegation led by Foreign Minister Alhaji Timothy Kabba, the ministry said.
News Guinea: Guinea stadium stampede kills 56 people following clashes at soccer match, authorities say
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... CONAKRY, Guinea — At least 56 people, including children, have died after fans at a soccer game in Guinea allegedly clashed over a disputed call by the ...
News Guinea: Equatorial Guinea Touts Economy and Reforms at World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa
“The macro-economic indicators for Equatorial Guinea and the wider CEMAC region look very positive thanks to a stable oil price and major fiscal adjustments that have improved our ability to mobilize ...
News Guinea: Guinea-Bissau’s latest coup sparks allegations of a staged takeover. Here’s what to know
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have seized power, marking another military takeover in West Africa. The coup followed a contested presidential election where both President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and his main opponent claimed victory.
News Guinea: Women sow seeds, restore forests in Guinea, the ‘water tower of West Africa’
For Mariame Condé, the seed-collecting work came at a critical time. In January 2022, she was pregnant and nearly out of food. Her husband had left their village to search for gold in Sigiri, a mining area, and their harvest was almost gone, she told Mongabay in a WhatsApp message. That year, Condé collected 20,000 […]
News Guinea: Equatorial Guinea's President marks four decades in power
Equatorial Guinea’s Teodoro Obiang Nguema is celebrating 40 years ... President Obiang managed to escape the threats of coup d‘état and worked hard to command powerful security services under his ...
News Guinea: Israeli tycoon ordered to trial over alleged Guinea bribes
GENEVA — Swiss prosecutors say an Israeli billionaire has been ordered to stand trial on corruption and bribery charges allegedly involving a widow of Guinea’s former president. Prosecutors in Geneva ...
News Guinea: Equatorial Guinea include 16-year-old Luis Miguel Nlavo
Equatorial Guinea are one of 28 nations taking part in a preliminary round of World Cup qualifying for Africa Equatorial Guinea have included 16-year-old striker Luis Miguel Nlavo in their squad for ...
News Guinea: Academic Mamoudou Barry, murdered in France, to be buried in Guinea
The body of Mamoudou Barry, the Guinean legal academic murdered in France last month, will be put to rest on Monday afternoon in his birthplace of Bolaro, Guinea.The memory of Barry was honoured at Sonfonia Public University in Conakry on Sunday, where his body laid in state. Academics, friends, and
News Guinea: Think renting in Sydney and Melbourne is tough? Spare a thought for Papua New Guinea
A rental listing explicitly asking for expatriate clients only in Papua New Guinea's capital sparks accusations of discrimination, as new research shows landlords are charging up to twice the amount of a typical monthly household income.
News Guinea: It's against the law to own just one guinea pig in Switzerland because they get so lonely
The heartbreaking reason being that guinea pigs are highly social animals, and are proven to need a companion to live happily. These laws are taken so seriously in Switzerland that there are even ...
News Guinea: African Development Bank's Support of Electrification Changes Habits and Lightens the Load for Guineans
For over a year in Conakry, the Guinean capital, and in several other major towns and rural areas in the country, habits have changed. Like many of her compatriots, Arama Sire Camara, a fruit and vegetable seller in the province of Kindia (135 km from Conakry) is now much more confident and happy carrying on her business day and night.
News Guinea: Endless waiting, porters and flooded motors: The struggle to cross Guinea’s Bagou River
After a temporary bridge over the Bagou River was washed away by heavy rains three weeks ago, the road between Mali and Labé, towns in northern Guinea, has become hell for travellers. To cross the river, travellers are forced to wait hours and pay high fees to porters. Very often, their vehicles are
News Guinea: E. Guinea accused of planning border wall with Cameroon: army sources
Yaoundé (AFP) - Equatorial Guinea is planning to build a wall along the border with its neighbour Cameroon, according to sources in the Cameroon army. An army officer, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that Equatorial Guinean soldiers had crossed the Ntem river that forms a natural border
