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The Latest Breaking News from Guinea

‘Each of us is afraid’: Guinea’s junta leader tightens grip as opposition lies low

Mamady Doumbouya has led the country since a 2021 coup. Some fear he has no intention of relinquishing power

The Guardian - UK

Award-winning migrant actor Abou Sangaré granted right to stay in France

Life imitates art: Abou Sangaré, a Guinean man living in France who won a prize at the Cannes film festival for playing an undocumented migrant seeking to stay in the country, has been granted a work permit, enabling him to do the same.

Radio France Internationale

Guinea’s junta faces protests after missing a deadline for a return to democracy

Civil society and opposition groups in Guinea are protesting the ruling junta’s missed deadline to launch a return to democracy

The Independent UK

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Guinea opposition groups challenge military rule after missed deadline

Guinea's opposition and civil society groups say they will no longer recognise the country's transitional authorities after 31 December, when a promised return to constitutional rule was meant to take place.

Radio France Internationale

Ebola: how a vaccine turned a terrifying virus into a preventable disease

The Ebola virus devastated west Africa in 2014, claiming over 11,000 lives in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea.

The Conversation

Guinea rights groups say death toll in stadium stampede too low

Guinea’s military-led government has warned that publishing ‘unverified’ information will result in arrests.

Al Jazeera

Relatives hunt for the missing after Guinea stadium crush amid fears official death toll is too low

Kambaly Kouroumah was searching a local morgue for his teenage brother, Adama, who died after chaos erupted at a soccer game in southern Guinea’s Nzerekore city

The Independent UK

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Rape survivors like Gisèle Pelicot are choosing to speak out, refuting the idea that they should feel shame

The high-profile criminal trial of Dominique Pelicot is wrapping up. The French man is accused of drugging and raping his 72-year-old wife, Gisèle Pelicot, and also inviting 50 other men to rape her while she was unconscious.

The Conversation

At least 56 people killed in crush at Guinea football stadium

Witnesses say people scrambled to escape after teargas used during pitch invasion at match in Nzérékoré

The Guardian - UK

A look at some of the world’s major crowd disasters

Fifty-six people were killed in a stampede at a soccer stadium in southern Guinea on Sunday

The Independent UK

Stampede At Guinea Soccer Stadium Leaves 56 Dead

Tragedy strikes as a stampede at a Guinea soccer stadium claims 56 lives during a local tournament final match. Tensions escalate over a disputed penalty, ...

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Multiple Casualties Reported In Crowd Crush At Guinea Football Match

A crowd crush at a football match in Guinea led to casualties, sparking concerns amid political upheavals in the region.

The Conversation

Military rule is on the rise in Africa – nothing good came from it in the past

In the last few years, there has been a spate of military coups in Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, Sudan and Guinea. Military rule, long dormant in African politics, is back.

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Panic (Buying) in the Streets of London: Here's the 1 Stock Set to Benefit

The blocking of bauxite exports from Guinea is the latest news to send alumina prices skyrocketing, with much of the panic buying coming from China, the world's biggest aluminum producer. Prices hit a record high last week, surpassing levels last seen in 2018, when the U.S. placed sanctions on Russia’s…

Radio France Internationale

Guinea’s political parties face survival test as junta orders mass cull

More than 100 political parties in Guinea face a three-month battle for survival after the ruling junta published the results of a probe designed to bring order to the country’s political landscape.

Radio France Internationale

The double life of Abou Sangaré, undocumented migrant and Cannes award winner

French film L'Histoire de Souleymane (Souleymane’s Story) brings the life of an undocumented Guinean migrant into sharp focus. Picking up two awards at the Cannes Film Festival, it has drawn attention to the real-life plight of lead actor Abou Sangaré, who is still waiting for a visa to be able…

The Independent UK

Asylum-seeker to film star: Guinean's unusual journey highlights France's arguments over immigration

Landing in the midst of heated arguments in France about immigration comes an award-winning film about the issue with an eye-popping twist: Its lead actor Abou Sangare is himself an immigrant lacking permanent legal status

France 24

Hero or dictator? Ahmed Sékou Touré and the war of memory in Guinea

Forty years after his death, Ahmed Sékou Touré, the father of Guinea's independence, is more popular than ever. For young people across West Africa in search of a hero, Sékou Touré could be what they're looking for. But this rehabilitation of the country's past dictator glosses over the tens of…

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