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People Daily (Free subscription) | yesterday
The head of the delegation for the ruling National Council for Democracy and Development in Guinea, Moussa Keita, has ruled out the possibility of step-down of the military junta in the ongoing negotiations to end the crisis. In an interview with Xinhua on Thursday before his delegation met with Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore, the mediator in the Guinea crisis, Keita, a minister and permanent...
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Global Security (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
Most opponents of Guinea's military government are rejecting a power-sharing plan put forward by the regional mediator, Burkinabe President Blaise Compaore.
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Fourteen candidates including incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo and his two main opponents Aime Henri Konan Bedie and Alassane Ouattara have been selected by the Constitutional Council for the next Ivorian presidential election Paul Yao N’dré, the chairperson of this institution, announced on Friday as he delivered a statement. “Considering that the following candidates, Akoto Yao...
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Nigerian President Umaru Yar'Adua has expressed optimism that the political crisis in Guinea would soon be resolved, the News Agency of Nigeria reported on Tuesday. Yar'Adua gave the assurance at a joint media briefing at the end of the meeting he held with the visiting President of Burkina Faso Blaise Compaore at the presidential villa in Abuja on Monday. According to him, the meeting which centered...
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Paris DJs Podcasts (Free subscription) | 15/11/2009
Paris DJs Soundsystem - African Soul Music (MP3 Podcast on www.ParisDJs.com) 2009-11-15 [ comment faire?/ how to? ] Tracklisting : 01. Pax Nicholas and the Nettey Family - Ata Onukpa (from Daptone LP 2009 reissue) 02. Nkengas - Nkenga Special (from LP 'Destruction' Tackle records 197?) 03. Mapp Brown - Murry Hup (from 45t Sonafric 197? Cameroun) 04. Compaoré Issouf - Dambakalé (from...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Guinea's ruling junta presented proposals for the creation of a transitional government that would keep junta chief Captain Moussa Dadis Camara in place. The proposals were passed to Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore who is mediating in talks with the country's opposition in Ouagadougou, after forces loyal to the junta on September 28 massacred more than 150 people. The killings took place at...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Guinea's opposition has rejected a proposal for a government of national unity which would include the military junta which seized power last December, reports Le Potentiel of Kinshasa.
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Net News Publisher (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
A delegation of the National Council for Democracy and Development (CNDD), the ruling military council in Guinea, is expected on Tuesday to meet with the facilitator in the Guinean crisis, Mr. Blaise Compaoré, in the Burkinabe capital Ouagadougou. This mission is part of the mediation which started this week with the visit of the junta’s representatives [...]
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
In countries all over the world today, women live with the threat, or consequences, of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). In Africa alone an estimated three million girls and women are subjected to the practice each year, and some 92 million of the continent's female population are estimated to have been victims of FGM.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
A coalition of Guinean opposition leaders has presented President Blaise Compaoré of Burkina Faso a set of proposals they believe will end the political crisis precipitated by a military takeover in Guinea last December, reports Sidwaya from Ouagadougou.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore on Tuesday held discussions with pressure groups from Guinea to end the political crisis lingering on since December. The talks is part of the plan unveiled by Compaore during his trip early last month to Guinea to find a way out of the impasse, which was complicated by the Sept. 28 bloodshed in the confrontation between the military junta and its opponents. Compaore,...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
In a damning report published on Tuesday, Human Rights Watch said an in-depth investigation into the September 28 bloodbath in a stadium in Conakry showed the massacre had been premeditated.
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 24/10/2009
"Three weeks after over 150 people were killed in a military crackdown on demonstrators in the capital Conakry, with women and girls raped, Guineans are coping with the aftermath, some still searching for disappeared relatives' bodies. Uncertainty and tension reign." - UN IRIN News, Oct. 21, 2009
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
The top United Nations envoy to the Côte d'Ivoire today called on the West African nation to build on momentum towards holding its much-delayed presidential elections, slated for the end of next month.
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