CONAKRY, 10 June 2021 – A court in Guinea has sentenced an opposition activist to three years in prison for organizing protests against President Alpha Conde. Oumar Sylla, known as Foniké Mengue, was found guilty of illegal assembly and spreading false...
WASHINGTON, DC, 5 April 2021 – African economies will rebound in 2021 with Niger, Cote d’Ivoire, and Guinea growing above six percentage points, The World Bank Group has predicted. Cote d’Ivoire is projected to grow 6.2 percent; a tiny bit slower than Guinea at 6.5...
CONAKRY, 5 March 2021 – The Ebola outbreak in Guinea is at a “very high risk” of spreading to neighboring west African countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday. Eighteen cases of Ebola were reprted as of Thursday, 14 of them confirmed, including...
PARIS, 1 March 2021 – French industrial group Bollore reached a settlement Friday on a decade-old case of bribery and corruption in Togo, a judge in Paris ruled. Under the deal, the Bollore conglomerate will pay $14.5 million after admitting guilt in the financial...
ALGIERS, 25 February 2021 – The Algerian government received 200,000 doses of the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine, Sinopharm, on Wednesday, officials in the capital, Algiers, said Thursday. “There will be further deliveries of anti-Covid-19 vaccines until the country’s...
CONAKRY-KINSHASA, 14 February 2021 – Officials in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a new Ebola outbreak in their countries. Guinean officials on Saturday declared that they are dealing with an Ebola epidemic after at least three people were...
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