Two Years Among New Guinea Cannibals: A Naturalist's Sojourn Among the Aborigines of Unexplored New Guinea
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS have launched an investigation into whether South African mercenaries have been training supporters of Guinea’s military dictatorship following allegations they have been seen near Conakry, the capital.
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Two ministers from the sister Republics of Guinea and Senegal yesterday paid a courtesy call on the vice president and minister of WomenÂ's Affairs, Ajaratou Dr Isatou Njie-Saidy, at the Kairaba Beach Hotel.
turenchi (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
United Nations Secretary-GenerUnited Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday met with members of the Commission of Inquiry set up to probe September‘s violent crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea, a UN ...United Nations Secretary-General, Mr. Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday met with members of the Commission of Inquiry set up to probe September‘s violent crackdown on unarmed...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday
The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports that SA "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ruling junta in Guinea.
virtualreview: china|blogs (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
You could just call it good business, or you could call it a complete disregard for humanity - China's $7 billion resource deal with the African nation of Guinea (currently under a regime without legitimacy) has basically screwed Guineans out of their...
American Election 2008 (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
The US says its has evidence that South African “military trainers” are in Guinea helping the much-criticised ruling junta.
Aurora Daily (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
I was heading for a shady bench with a book but several guineafowl and their chicks (you can see 3 or 4 of them in the picture if you look carefully) had staked a prior claim.
Democracy Resource Center Blog (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
URL: http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm'id=6349&l=1 . Source: International Crisis Group. This report focuses on the events of 28 September – when security forces killed at least 160 people in a crackdown on opposition to the military regime – and their implications for the stability of the country and the sub-region. It discusses dangerous fractures within the military and signs...
Shanghaiist (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
You could just call it good business, or you could call it a complete disregard for humanity - China's $7 billion resource deal with the African nation of Guinea (currently under a regime without legitimacy) has basically screwed Guineans out of their lifeline out of poverty. [ The Independent ] Want an explanation of what the Obama-Hu collaboration for clean energy and climate change really means?...
Full Comment (Free subscription) | yesterday
At the beginning of 2002, a dollar could buy 1.1 Euros. Americans visiting France could happily tell the waiter, "We will have the dessert and the cheese!" Today, a dollar buys 67 European cents -- and it’s no cheese for you. The weakness of the dollar has touched off two reactions. Critics of the administration see the decline of the dollar as a harbinger of American decline. Cue...
IOL (Free subscription) | yesterday
Sightings of mercenaries at work for Guinea's junta are a potential blow to international efforts to press its military leaders to step down.
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Diplomats said Belgium's Prime Minister Herman van Rompuy has been named the EU's first president. Reuters Belgian Premier Van Rompuy Named First EU President -- Wall Street Journal BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders picked the low-key prime minister of Belgium and a British trade representative who's never held elective office as the bloc's first president and foreign minister. There were weeks of...
War News Updates (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai arrives at his inauguration ceremony at the Presidential Palace in Kabul on Thursday. Moises Saman for The New York Times Karzai Sworn In for Second Term as Afghan President -- New York Times KABUL, Afghanistan — Tainted by a flawed election and allegations of high-level corruption in his regime, President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated Thursday for a...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
SUGAR LAND, Texas, Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Hyperdynamics Corporation (NYSE Amex: HDY) today announced that it has received encouraging preliminary results from an oil seeps study of the company's 31,000-square-mile oil and gas concession offshore Guinea. The survey was conducted by TDI-Brooks International of College Station, Texas.
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
BANJUL, Gambia - A human rights activist says he's been denied entrance to Guinea, where he planned to investigate a massacre of opposition supporters earlier this year. Mabassa...
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