Guinea

The Boké mining region in northwestern Guinea also makes a living from agriculture and animal husbandry. Over the past ten years, an economic player has developed the region's fertile land by producing rice over hundreds of hectares, to the great satisfaction of the local population. From our correspondent in Conakry, On the left bank of the river Rio Nunez, the vast plains of Denken, as far as the eye can see, hundreds of people work under the leadership of an agricultural director, Mamadou Bobo Denken Diallo. For…

In Guinea, the parties that supported the candidacy of their opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo in the last presidential election signed an agreement yesterday in Conakry to form a political alliance. But in the wake, in the late afternoon, two of their activists were arrested. An electoral coalition formed for the last presidential…

Following the release in early May of 40 people detained since the October 2020 demonstrations around Guinea's presidential election, Amnesty International recalls that 57 detainees, arrested under the same circumstances, are still behind bars. NGOs demand respect for their rights and for criminal proceedings. "Despite these…

A local Guinean official, who passed from the ruling party to the opposition, was sentenced on Thursday, July 9, to three years and four months in prison for "insulting the head of state", after declaring that only weapons could drive Alpha Condé out of power. The condemnation of opponents has recurred in Guinea since the controversial re-election of President Condé in October 2020.…

After several months of closure, the Conakry-Dakar axis will soon be reopened if we take into account this agreement signed between the two countries at the ECOWAS summit in Accra, Ghana, on 19 June. as reported from Conakry, Moktar BahThe Guinean and Senegalese authorities signed one agreements on military and technical…

Guinea this time very quickly overcame the Ebola virus disease that reappeared in the southern part of the country in February last year. National health authorities quickly implemented the response with the support of the WHO and its partners and built on the expertise gathered in the fight against Ebola in the country between 2013 and 2016.…

The end of Guinea's second Ebola outbreak was officially announced on Saturday by the World Health Organization (WHO). The outbreak began on February 14. "I have the honor to declare the end of Ebola" in Guinea, said WHO official Alfred Ki-Zerbo at a ceremony in the southeastern Nzerekore region where the disease occurred in late January. It was the second such outbreak in the poor country of 13 million people since the devastating Ebola epidemic of 2013-2016 in West Africa, which left 11,300 dead in…

On Saturday, Guinea will hold a ceremony in the Nzérékoré region. This is to celebrate the official end of the Ebola epidemic, 46 days after the second negative test of the last patient affected by the virus. The fee, 23 registered cases including 12 deaths and 11 recoveries, is much less heavy than during the previous epidemic…

In Guinea, from Monday, June 14, the Ministry of the Environment, Water and Forestry banned "the cutting and transport of firewood throughout the national territory, until further notice". Issuance of hijacking permits is also prohibited. A measure that the ministry justified with "the report on excessive logging and illegal…

Sentenced in the first instance to eleven months 'imprisonment, after two years' imprisonment required by the prosecutor on appeal, the head of mobilization and the branches of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution was finally sentenced to 3 years in prison by Judge Saïdou Kéita, the first president of the Court of Appeal. A verdict that human rights defenders and civil society actors…