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Ruthie Ackerman | Posted 11.03.2009 | World
Conservatives will ask why during an economic recession should we spend even more money in Liberia. My answer: for the security of Liberia and the entire West African region.
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Stories compiled by Mohammad al-Kassim, Channtal Fleischfresser, Connie Kargbo, Ivette Feliciano, Christine Kiernan and Gizem Yarbil and edited by Reb...
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npr.org | By Ofeibea Quist | Posted 10.21.2009 | World
I have interviewed women and even child survivors of sexual violence before, mostly during civil wars in conflict zones. Naturally, my heart went out ...
Essence | Essence | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
The people of the West African nation of Guinea continue to struggle with the horrible trauma of a deadly military crackdown on a pro-democracy rally ...
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.21.2009 | Home
Amid widespread international condemnation of Guinea's military regime, the United Nations announced Friday it would launch a formal investigatio...
GroundReport.com | GroundReport.com | Posted 10.11.2009 | Home
The interview below is the testimony of a Guinean soldier who took part in the repression of the opposition demonstration in Conakry, in Guinea, on Se...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 10.12.2009 | Home
Victims of the September 28th events in Conakry. A number of Western governments have stepped up their condemnations of recent violence and b...
Bronx News Network | Bronx News Network | Posted 10.08.2009 | Home
The newspaper City Hall sat down with Fernando Cabrera, who defeated Maria Baez in the Democratic primary (tantamount to ultimate victory in the heavi...
Reuters | 55 Mins Ago | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
WASHINGTON (Reuters) The United States has "conveyed deep outrage" to the government of Guinea over a violent military crackdown on a protest rally la...
nytimes.com | ADAM NOSSITER | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
CONAKRY, Guinea Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets ...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.03.2009 | Home
Guinea's military leader warns opposition of citing rebellion if arbitration force is sent....
Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka Rebuffet | Posted 10.02.2009 | World
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AP | ALHASSAN SILLAH | Posted 10.01.2009 | Home
CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's military leader banned all gatherings and demonstrations Wednesday, as the United Nations pressed for an independent investigation into why troops opened fire on 50,000 pro-democracy protesters.
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay condemned the soldiers' use of live ammunition against the unarmed people who gathered Monday in a stadium in Conakry, the capital, to protest against Capt. Moussa "Dadis" Camara, the country's military leader.
A human rights group said 157 people were killed and more than 1,200 were wounded. The government maintains that 57 people died and said most of them were trampled.
The U.N. Security Council also condemned the shootings Wednesday and joined the call for an independent investigation.
U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice, the current council president, called on the government to free all opposition leaders and political prisoners "without delay."
AP | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home
JOHANNESBURG — The U.S. military has begun an exercise in the African nation of Gabon with personnel from 25 African countries to improve command and control between forces for possible peacekeeping or anti-terrorism missions, a spokesman said Wednesday.
Some 200 personnel are participating in the Africa Endeavor exercise that tests abilities of African militaries to communicate with each other, Vince Crawley, a spokesman for U.S. Africa Command, told The Associated Press.
Africom, as the command is known, is sponsoring the exercise and much of the instruction is done by U.S. military personnel based in Europe and the United States, said Eric S. Elliott, another U.S. military spokesman.
"The overall objective is to achieve a level of communications interoperability and compatibility that will allow partner nations to successfully conduct future multinational operations," Elliott said.
Guinea, whose military forces fired on pro-democracy demonstrators Monday, killing more than 150 people, was not participating, the spokesmen said.
The Independent | Independent | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
Thousands had marched to the football stadium in downtown Conakry on Monday to protest against Guinea's military junta. Nearly 160 people paid for th...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
Conakry residents load a minibus. Flickr photo: martapiqs Almost one year after a bloodless coup in December 2008 - during which Captain Mous...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
At least 157 demonstrators killed after security forces opened fire, rights group says....
AP | ALHASSAN SILLAH | Posted 09.30.2009 | World
CONAKRY, Guinea — Guinea's government said Tuesday it would investigate why troops opened fire on protesters at a pro-democracy rally. A human r...
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 09.29.2009 | Home
Military criticised for Monday's crackdown that left 58 opposition supporters dead....
AFP | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Some 350,000 people in West Africa have been affected by serious flooding, the United Nations said Friday, noting that "significant" rainfall has lash...
Kelly Nuxoll | Posted 07.21.2009 | World
Like the bulk of people who come to the United States seeking asylum or without correct documentation, Jean-Pierre spent the first phase of his new life as a prisoner.
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In an April 21, 2008, New Yorker story, "Vengeance Is Ours," Pulitzer Prize-winning geology scholar Jared Diamond describes blood feuds that rage for ...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home