iPhone app iPad app Android phone app Android tablet app

Guinea

A Fistula-Free Generation Is Achievable in Our Lifetime

Pamela Barnes | Posted 05.13.2013 | Impact
Read More: Childbirth, Global Health Issues, Global Health, Motherhood, Sexual Health, Fistula, Developing Countries, Pregnancy, Mother's Day, Guinea, Mothers, Reproductive Health, Impact News
Pamela Barnes

May is the month when we celebrate our mothers. For Fatoumata, a mother in Guinea, she is celebrating a brand new life. Recently, she was lifted from ...

Read Whole Story

Mighty Movie Podcast: Sidiki Conde and Alan Govenar on You Don't Need Feet to Dance

Dan Persons | Posted 03.24.2013 | Entertainment
Read More: You Don't Need Feet to Dance, Sidiki Conde, Disability, Alan Govenar, Guinea, New York City, New York, Entertainment News
Dan Persons

The subject of the documentary You Don't Need Feet to Dance, Sidiki Conde, is possibly the very definition of determination and resilience.

Read Whole Story

Freedom in the World 2013: Winners and Losers

Freedom House | Posted 03.18.2013 | World
Read More: Civil Liberties, Guinea, Burma, Nigeria, Freedom in the World, Maldives, Democracy, Freedom House, Political Rights, Mali, Libya, Human Rights, Côte D?Ivoire, Freedom, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Senegal, Video, World News
Freedom House

by Arch Puddington and Jennifer Dunham *Arch Puddington is vice president for research at Freedom House, and Jennifer Dunham is the research a...

Read Whole Story

Teachers Matter: What I Learned at UNESCO's World Teachers' Day in Paris

Dan Brown | Posted 12.12.2012 | Home
Read More: Public Schools, Drc, Global Education, Nbpts, Educational Reform, Unesco, Education International, Guinea, Ed Tech, National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, Teachers Unions, Educational Technology, National Board Certified Teachers, Education First, Education, Nbct, David Edwards, United Nations, Ban Ki-Moon, Teacher Recruitment, Ron Thorpe, Teachers, World Teachers Day, Home News
Dan Brown

As the international consensus suggests, we must put all the resources we can into investing in the village it takes to raise quality teachers.

Read Whole Story

PHOTOS: Abandon All Hope: Visiting 10 Entrances To Hell

Andrew Burmon | Posted 11.29.2012 | Travel
Read More: The Inferno, Yellowstone, Guinea, 12 Gates of Hell on Earth, Ireland, Italy, Travel, Belize, Gotta See This, Video, Gates of Hell, Japan, Turkmenistan, Halloween Travel, Slidepollajax, Holiday Travel, Hell, Travel News

Grandma may be breathless over her trip to the Holy Land and your cousin may want to go snowboarding at Heavenly, but most people receive more persona...

Read Whole Story

DSK Lawyers Dispute Report Of Hotel Maid's Medical Examination

AP | JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 10.16.2011 | World
Read More: William W. Taylor, Manhattan, Guinea, Sofitel, France, International Monetary Fund, New York, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Video, Benjamin Brafman, Dsk, Sofitel Hotel, Kenneth Thompson, Imf, L'Express, Nafissatou Diallo, World News

JENNIFER PELTZ / AP NEW YORK -- Lawyers for former International Monetary Fund leader Dominique Strauss-Kahn fought back Tuesday after a media repo...

Read Whole Story

Lawyer For Hotel Maid In Strauss-Kahn Case Says Her Remarks Were Wrongfully Portrayed

AP | COLLEEN LONG and JENNIFER PELTZ | Posted 09.26.2011 | World
Read More: Manhattan, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Kenneth-Thompson, Video, Guinea, Dsk, International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex Scandal, Sofitel Hotel, Imf, Nafissatou Diallo, New York, World News

NEW YORK — The hotel maid accusing Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sex assault has been wrongfully portrayed as a money-grubbing opportunist in accoun...

Read Whole Story

Guinean President Survives Assasination Attempt

AP | BOUBACAR DIALLO and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 09.18.2011 | World
Read More: Guinea President, Alpha Conde Assasination Attempt, Guinea President Assasination Attempt, Guinea, Alpha Condé, World News

CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's president narrowly survived an assassination attempt Tuesday after gunmen surrounded his home overnight and pounded h...

Read Whole Story

Families, Planning, And Faith

Katherine Marshall | Posted 09.07.2011 | Religion
Read More: Catholic Church, MDG Goal 5a, Georgetown University Institute for Reproductive Health, Contraception, Family Planning, Christian Connections for International Health, Guinea, Women's Rights, Religion News
Katherine Marshall

Faced with the dual realities of avoidable deaths and our capacity to do something about it, you would expect the religious community before all others to throw their passions, skills, and moral authority behind campaigns to save women's lives.

Read Whole Story

Would You Trust Management Consultants With the World's Rainforests? Our Governments Have -- Disastrously

Johann Hari | Posted 09.06.2011 | Green
Read More: Mckinsey, Guinea, Rainforest, David Cameron, Amazon Rainforest, Congo, Rainforest Destruction, Deforestation, Greenpeace, Management Consulting, Green News
Johann Hari

Management consultants have now been, in effect, tasked with setting the future of the world's rainforests -- and they are facing accusations that they are using our money to draw up plans that will result in their more rapid destruction.

Read Whole Story

Strauss-Kahn Fallout: NY DA Takes Five Steps Backwards For Rape Accusers

Shelley Ross | Posted 09.05.2011 | Crime
Read More: Lisa Friel, Kenneth P. Thompson, Asylum Application, Sexual Assault Charges, Dominque Strauss-Kahn, False Statements, Guinea, Case Implosion, Sex Crimes Unit, Jr., Sexual Assault, Cyrus Vance, Crime News
Shelley Ross

Some people have all the luck and Dominique Strauss-Kahn is one of them. He's had good political fortune. He married a billionairess. Now, it turns o...

Read Whole Story

DSK Scandal: New York Times On The Hotel Maid Accuser

New York Times | MIKE McGOVERN | Posted 09.05.2011 | World
Read More: Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Hotel Maid, Guinea, International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Freed, Dominique Strauss-Kahn Sex Scandal, World News

REVELATIONS about the hotel housekeeper who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexual assault suggest that she embellished claims of abuse to receive a...

Read Whole Story

Guinea State Of Emergency

AP | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Guinea Election, Guinea Election Results, Guinea Emergency Declared, Guinea State of Emergency, Guinea Election Violence, Guinea, Election Violence, Cellou Dalein Diallo, World News

CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's military on Wednesday declared a state of emergency, further restricting civilian movement and giving the army permis...

Read Whole Story

WikiLeaks Cables: DEA Transformed Into Global Intelligence Organization

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Drug Enforcement Agency, Wikileaks, Karen Tandy, Lansana Kouyate, DEA WikiLeaks, Guinea, Dea, Ricardo Martinelli, Ernest Bai Koroma, Panama, Sierra Leone, World News

The Drug Enforcement Administration has been transformed into a global intelligence organization with a reach that extends far beyond narcotics, and a...

Read Whole Story

Is Africa Losing its Taste for Democracy?

John McCauley | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Africa Democracy, Democracy, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Madagascar, Cote D'Ivoire, Africa, World News
John McCauley

The recent failed election in Cote d'Ivoire, which has generated competing claims to the presidency and a high risk of return to widespread violence, is the latest in a series of electoral setbacks in sub-Saharan Africa.

Read Whole Story

Hope on Ice: Support Needed for Travel to Guinea

Pulitzer Center. | Pulitzer Center | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Guinea, Home News

In November Artcirq will travel to Guinea to collaborate with acrobats from the circus troup...

Read Whole Story

Guinea: Moving On to the Second Round Election

Amos J. Hochstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Guinea-Elections, Guinea, World News
Amos J. Hochstein

What Guinea needs now is for international donors, institutions and organizations to increase efforts to support the final stages of a democratic transition and help Guinea revive its economy.

Read Whole Story

10 Poorest Countries In The World

Huffington Post | Nathaniel Cahners Hindman | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Poverty, Ethiopia, Guinea, United Nations, Africa, Nigeria, Somalia, Global Poverty, Slidepollajax, Poorest Countries, Business News

Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world, followed by South Asia, according to a new measure developed by Oxford University, with support...

Read Whole Story

Raising Guinea Hens (Including the Great Guinea Surprise!)

Maria Rodale | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Eggs, Guinea, Animals, Farm, Healthy Living News
Maria Rodale

We started keeping guinea hens about three years ago because we live in the woods, and I wanted something to eat the ticks.

Read Whole Story

Guinea: A Triumph for African Democracy

Amos J. Hochstein | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Guinea, Africa, World News
Amos J. Hochstein

From the outside looking in, African elections often look messy, violent and corrupt. But against this backdrop, what is happening today in Guinea deserves a closer look from other African nations and the international community.

Read Whole Story

A Hopeful Election in Guinea

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Rio Tinto, Guinea-Elections, Africa, Guinea, Mining, World Bank, Robert Amsterdam, Democracy, Francois Lonceny Fall, Vale, Alpha Condé, Cellou Dalein Diallo, Ecowas, Rusal, World News
Robert Amsterdam

At a moment in which the tide of global democracy is seemingly in reversal, it is heartening to note the enthusiasm with which many voters in Africa a...

Read Whole Story

The ICC Review Conference, the Crime of Aggression, and International Criminal Justice

Rahim Kanani | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Macarthur Foundation, Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Omar Al-Bashir, Guinea, Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, Richard Goldstone, United Nations, United Nations Security Council, Georgia, Harvard, Humanitarian Aid, Darfur, War Crimes, Kenya, Sudan, Colombia, Icc, Uganda, Save the Children, International Criminal Court, World News
Rahim Kanani

ICC Review Conference is an historic convening of the highest order for furthering the ultimate goal of ending impunity for the world's gravest crimes.

Read Whole Story

Citizen Media: Drown Out the Noise

Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Saki G, Kate Thomas, Guinea, Myles Estey, Global Voices, Democracy, Liberia, David Sasaki, Hyperlocal, Shane Smith, Journalism, Participatory Journalism, Chimamanda Adichie, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Ceasefire Liberia, Shelby Grossman, Ethan Zuckerman, Glenna Gordon, Vice, Citizen Media, World News
Ruthie Ackerman

What makes (the best of) today's journalism different is that citizen journalists the world over have the opportunity to share their hyperlocal, interactive, personal portrayals of their communities.

Read Whole Story

Guinea Rape, Killes Causes "Deep Outrage", Says U.S. State Dept

Reuters | 55 Mins Ago | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: West Africa, Sexual Violence, Rape, Guinea, Guinea Attacks, Guinea Rape, Africa, Guinea Rapes, Guinea Rapings, Rapes, Guinea Raped, Rapings in Guinny, World News

WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United States has "conveyed deep outrage" to the government of Guinea over a violent military crackdown on a protest rally la...

Read Whole Story

Today: Guinea sanctions, Israeli settlers, and burger prices

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Bangalore-India, India, Guinea, South Korea, Home News

Stories compiled by Mohammad al-Kassim, Channtal Fleischfresser, Connie Kargbo, Ivette Feliciano, Christine Kiernan and Gizem Yarbil and edited by Reb...

Read Whole Story