Guinea's President Escapes Assassination Attempt

Guinea's President Survives Assassination Attempt -- The Guardian

Attack on President Alpha Condé reveals tensions remain months after Guinea's first transparent elections.

Guinea's president has survived an assassination attempt by gunmen who opened fire on his home, throwing into doubt the stability of the country's first democratically elected government.

President Alpha Condé was woken by the shooting, which erupted around his residence between 3am and 5am. A rocket-propelled grenade landed inside the compound, destroying part of it.

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Soldiers attack Guinean president's home -- CNN
Guinea president survives rocket attack -- AFP
Guinean president addresses nation after attack -- Yahoo News/AP
Guinean President Conde Survives Night Attack by Gunmen on Home in Conakry -- Bloomberg
Attack on home of Guinea President Conde repelled -- BBC
Arrests Made After Attack on Guinean President -- Voice of America
Guinea ex-army chief arrested after attack - police source -- Reuters
TIMELINE-Attack on Guinea's Conde repelled -- Reuters

State Of Emergency Declared In Guinea

Guinea Declares State Of Emergency After Poll Clashes -- BBC

The Guinean authorities have declared a state of emergency as violence continues in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election.

Reports say three people were found dead in the capital Conakry after the latest clashes between the security forces and opposition supporters.

The winning candidate, Alpha Conde, says he wants to lead a process of national reconciliation.

His rival, Cellou Dalein Diallo, has alleged electoral fraud.

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Guinea declares state of emergency after poll clashes -- BBC
Guinea government declares state of emergency after disputed vote -- The Telegraph
Guinea declares state of emergency as death toll rises -- Yahoo News/AFP
Guinea Declares State Of Emergency -- USA Today
Guinea declares emergency after post-election violence -- CNN
Guinean military declares emergency -- Al Jazeera
Guinea President Konate Declares State of Emergency on Post-Vote Violence -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Ten dead, over 200 injured in Guinea violence-group -- Reuters
State of emergency declared in Guinea -- RFI

Post Election Violence in Guinea Continues For A Third Day

Guinea Election Rivals Both Declare Victory, Setting Stage For Tense Showdown -- Christian Science Monitor

Hours before the Guinea election commission announced Alpha Conde as the nation's first democratically elected president in a half-century, rival candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo proclaimed himself winner.

Euphoria over the announcement that Alpha Conde is Guinea’s first democratically elected president melted into apprehension as rival candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo also proclaimed himself winner – setting the stage for a tense showdown in the days ahead.

Mr. Conde won the Nov. 7 runoff election with 52.52 percent of the vote to Mr. Diallo's 47.48 percent, according to final results released late Monday night by the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI). Pre-election violence saw numerous car and store windows smashed with rocks, resulting in clashes with the military that claimed the lives of at least three residents, in addition to another civilian reportedly killed Monday night.

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Clashes break out in Guinea capital for third day -- Reuters
Poll result triggers violence in Guinea -- Reuters
Guinea's citizens arming for possible ethnic fight -- Yahoo News/AP
Guinea's ethnic tension in wake of disputed election sparks across border in Sierra Leone -- Today Online
ANALYSIS-Ethnic wounds threaten Guinea stability bid -- Reuters
Guinean Presidential Candidate Will Challenge Result -- Bloomberg
US appeals for calm in Guinea -- News24
Tensions High in Guinea After Presidential Vote -- Voice of America
In pictures: Guinea celebrations and clashes -- BBC

Guinea Is Tense After Election Violence

Guinea Poll Losers Protest In The Capital -- BBC

Supporters of the defeated candidate in Guinea's presidential election, Cellou Dalein Diallo, have been protesting in the streets about the poll results.

The security forces have been firing tear gas in the capital and violence has been reported in some other areas.

Mr Diallo appealed for calm and said he would challenge the results in court.

Veteran opposition leader Alpha Conde, who won with more than 52% of the vote, said he wants to lead a process of national reconciliation.

The elections mark an end of 52 years of authoritarian rule, but since the first round in June, won by Mr Diallo - a former prime minister - the process has been marred by violence and delays.

According to the electoral commission, Mr Conde received 1.47 million votes in the country's 28 districts, against 1.3 million votes, or 47.5%, for Mr Diallo.

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More News On Guinea's Presidential Election Results

Guinea election rivals both declare victory, setting stage for tense showdown -- Christian Science Monitor
Fresh violence flares in Guinea after president named -- Yahoo News/AFP
Fears of fresh violence after Guinea's new president named -- Business Recorder
Violence subsides in Guinea capital; security high -- MSNBC/AP
Guinea tense as Conde declared winner of presidential poll -- Yahoo News/AFP
United Nations Urges Calm in Guinea After Alpha Conde Declared President -- Bloomberg
Guinea capital ethnically divided after results -- Yahoo News/AP

Guinea Erupts Into Violence After Presidential Election Results Are Published

Violence In Guinea As Opposition Leader Looks Set To Win Presidency -- Voice Of America

Riot police fought stone-throwing demonstrators in Guinea's capital, as it appears a long-time opposition leader has won last week's presidential election.

Supporters of former president Cellou Diallo burned tires in the street and threw stones at riot police just west of Conakry's Hamdallaye Mosque. Security forces responded with tear gas, chasing the demonstrators back into neighborhoods north of Route le Prince, where they fired more tear gas.

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Guinea Politicians Claim Victory, Sparking Fighting -- Bloomberg Businessweek
Guinean Police Clash With Diallo Supporters -- Voice of America
Guinea police clash with protesters -- BBC
Guinea candidates declare victory -- Daily Nation
Conde gains ground in Guinea run-off, Diallo protests -- Reuters
Guinea candidate says he will not accept results -- AP

Africa's Next Civil War?

Camara has made no statement or public appearance since he was shot. Photo AFP

Guinea Unions Ask For Details Of Junta Leader's Health -- AFP

CONAKRY — The Guinean Social Movement (MSG) has addressed an open letter to interim president Sekouba Konate, asking him to describe the state of health of the junta leader, who was shot on December 3.

"Since December 4, date on which President Moussa Dadis Camara was evacuated to Morocco after an assassination bid (...) the Guinean people have received no reliable information on his state of health," the movement said in an open letter dated Tuesday.

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Guinea Tribe Arms as War Fears Grow -- War Is Boring
Injured Guinea leader unaware of surroundings: source -- AFP
Guinea: temp meets junta boss -- News 24
'Nothing more to be done' for injured Junta leader, says govt source -- France 24
Guinea Opposition Figure Says Junta Leader Should Quit Politics -- Voice of America
Year After Coup, Turmoil Still Rules Guinea -- Voice of America, Editorial

One Year After The Coup, Unrest In Guinea Continues

Camara's forces attacked an opposition protest in the capital Conakry. Photo AFP

France's FM Kouchner Warns Of Guinea Civil War If Camara Returns -- BBC

Guinea could face a civil war if the country's military leader returns home, France's foreign minister has said.

Bernard Kouchner told French MPs that Moussa Dadis Camara should remain in Morocco where he is in hospital after an assassination attempt.

Earlier, the European Union toughened its sanctions against Guinea.

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Guinea junta chief's return could bring war - France -- Reuters
Junta Leader Camara plans return - diplomat -- News 24
Guinea's military celebrates 1 year of power -- AP
Guinea's junta celebrates first year in power -- AFP
Guinea junta promises 'earliest possible' elections -- AFP
Report: Guinea massacre 'crime against humanity' -- AP
Guinea junta should be 'held to account' for massacre: US -- AFP
Guinea killings deemed `crimes against humanity' -- Toronto Star
U.N. Panel Calls for Court in Guinea Massacre -- New York Times
EU tightens sanctions on Guinea junta -- AFP

UN Blames Guinea's Military Leader For September's Massacre

Camara's forces attacked an opposition protest in the capital Conakry. Photo AFP.

UN: Guinea Military Junta Leader Camara Responsible For Massacre -- Christian Science Monitor

A leaked UN report finds Guinea military junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara directly responsible for the massacre of more than 150 pro-democracy demonstrators in September.

Guinea’s junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara bears direct responsibility for the Sept. 28 killings by security forces of more than 150 pro-democracy marchers, according to leaked UN findings on Monday.

Guinea, the world’s top exporter of bauxite and a pivotal country for the security of West Africa, has been on the brink of chaos since the massacre and a botched assassination attempt against Camara on Dec. 3 by his former aide de camp.

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Report: Guinea massacre 'crime against humanity' -- AP
Guinea junta leader Camara should be tried - UN -- BBC
Guinea mayhem was 'crime against humanity': UN report -- AFP
UN probe blames Camara for Guinea killings -- Reuters
Report blames junta leader for Guinea killings -- Mail & Guardian
Guinea massacre victims 'missing' -- Al Jazeera
100 Bodies Missing After Guinea Massacre -- FOX News/AP
Guinea massacre ‘premeditated and organized’ by military: report -- Christian Science Monitor
US fears risk of Guinea civil war if wounded leader returns -- AFP

Guinea's Military Leader Travels to Morocco After Assassination Attempt

Wounded Leader of Guinea Leaves Country -- New York Times

After being wounded in an apparent assassination attempt, the military leader of Guinea was evacuated to Morocco for medical treatment on Friday, according to news reports, a development that raises questions about whether he is losing his grip on power.

Guinea’s communications minister, Idrissa Cherif, said that the leader, Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, had been attacked by one of his own aides, identified in local news reports as a Lt. Toumba Diakite, a high-ranking official in the military junta.

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Guinea's Military Leader Travels to Morocco After Shooting -- Voice of America
Burkina Faso: Guinea Leader in 'Difficult' Condition -- Voice of America
Guinea's Wounded Leader Evacuated -- Wall Street Journal
Soldier Who Shot and Wounded Guinea's Junta Leader Reportedly Arrested -- Voice of America

Guinea's President Wounded In Renegade Attack

Guinea president Moussa Dadis Camara, followed by his aide Toumba Diakite.
Photograph: Seyllou/AFP/Getty Images

Military Leader Of Guinea Shot In Attempted Coup -- Times Online

The West African state of Guinea faced fresh turmoil yesterday after the leader of the hardline junta that seized power a year ago was shot and injured by renegade presidential guards in the capital.

Communication Minister Idrissa Cherif said that President Moussa Dadis Camara was doing well. The attack came after weeks of persistent rumours of a power struggle within the military.

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Guinea president survives assassination attempt by military aide -- The Guardian
Guinea's president wounded in renegade attack -- AP
Guinea's leader 'shot and wounded by aide' -- BBC
Guinea military clash with police - witnesses -- Reuters
FACTBOX-Guinean leader - from "Obama Jr" to pariah -- Reuters

In Coup-Torn Guinea, Women Raped In Public

Photo: In a cellphone photograph given to The New York Times, soldiers surrounded a woman on the ground on Sept. 28 in Conakry, Guinea. Several images appear to show attacks on women.

In a Guinea Seized by Violence, Women Are Prey -- New York Times

CONAKRY, Guinea — Cellphone snapshots, ugly and hard to refute, are circulating here and feeding rage: they show that women were the particular targets of the Guinean soldiers who suppressed a political demonstration at a stadium here last week, with victims and witnesses describing rapes, beatings and acts of intentional humiliation.

“I can’t sleep at night, after what I saw,” said one middle-aged woman from an established family here, who said she had been beaten and sexually molested. “And I am afraid. I saw lots of women raped, and lots of dead.”

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Amid the bloodbath, harrowing tales of rape -- France 24
Horrific Mass Rapes in Muslim Guinea -- Islam Online
Women allege rape during Guinea massacre -- AFP
Guinean leader rejects French intervention call -- AP
Guinean captain opposes int'l intervention in Guinea -- China View
Guinea junta, opposition must talk after massacre: mediator -- AFP
Mediator Sent To Guinea After Bloody Protest -- NPR
African view: Guinea's lingering military legacy -- BBC
Crackdown In Conakry -- Voice of America editorial

Unrest In the African Contry Of Guinea -- News Updates October 3/4, 2009

Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, chief of the ruling junta, arrives to pay homage at Martyrs Place in Conakry on Friday, during celebrations commemorating the Republic of Guinea's independence day. Luc Gnago/Reuters

Guinea's New Strongman -- PBS

The most remarkable thing about Moussa Dadis Camara is how unremarkable he is. The Guinean junior army officer seized power in a bloodless coup in December, promising to usher in a new era of democratic elections and prosperity, but has since proven to be yet another military dictator, full of big-sounding rhetoric, but with only the interests of his junta at heart.

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Guinea Seethes as a Captain Rules at Gunpoint -- New York Times
Q&A: Guinea military junta leader, Cpt. Moussa Dadis Camara -- Christian Science Monitor
Foreign gunmen helped Guinea crackdown - witnesses -- Reuters
Guinea elections given the go ahead despite deaths at rally -- The Guardian
Guinea to hold election despite bloody protest -- AP
In pictures: Guinea mourns victims -- BBC
Thousands identify Guinea bodies -- BBC
Guinea: Outrage, Grief After Brutal Massacre -- Global Voice Online
Guinea Marks Somber Independence Day -- Voice of America
Guinea people opposed to peacekeepers: junta chief -- AFP

Guinea Junta Troops 'Killed And Raped Hundreds"

Clash Toll In Guinea Soars, France Cuts Aid -- Yahoo News/Reuters

CONAKRY (Reuters) – France led international pressure on Guinea's military rulers by cutting military cooperation on Tuesday after a crackdown by the security forces on its opponents killed 157, according to a local rights group.

Condemnation of Guinea's junta intensified.

France joined the African Union in mulling sanctions and West Africa's ECOWAS called for an international enquiry into the bloody quashing of a demonstration by tens of thousands of protesters urging military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara to step down.

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Guinean police make an arrest in front of the stadium in the capital Conakry during the protest banned by the ruling junta. At least 150 people were said to have died and hundreds of women raped

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Guinea junta troops 'killed and raped hundreds at democracy rally' -- Times Online
Violent Crackdown Shatters Democracy Hopes in Guinea -- Times Online
Guinea Death Toll More Than 200, Opposition Says -- Bloomberg
Guinea troops 'kill 128 protesters' -- The Telegraph
Protests as Guinea protesters shot dead -- CNN
Guinea army 'bayoneted victims' -- BBC
Rights Group: Guinea Military Killed at Least 157 in Crackdown -- Voice of America
Guinea protest death toll climbs to 157 -- AP
France suspends military cooperation with Guinea -- AFP
Guinea's erratic military ruler -- BBC
Do Guinea’s dark days reveal junta’s colours? -- Reuters
Q & A: How did Guinea erupt into violence? -- Christian Science Monitor
Q+A: What happens next after Guinea crackdown? -- Reuters

Military Crackdown In The African State Of Guinea Kills Many

The protesters were demonstrating against Camara's
decision to stand in forthcoming elections [AFP]

At Least 87 Killed in Guinea Anti-Junta Protest -- ABS-CBN News/AFP

CONAKRY - At least 87 people were killed in Conakry on Monday when Guinea's security forces opened fire on opposition demonstrators, with troops reportedly removing bodies to hide the scale of the bloodshed.

"There are 87 bodies that were collected in and around the stadium after the military came through," a police source said, referring to the venue of the rally and speaking on condition of anonymity.

There are currently 47 bodies at the Samory Toure military camp in Conakry, four of them women, the source said, adding that the corpses were to be buried overnight.

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Scores die in Guinea clashes ahead of poll -- Financial Times
At Least 58 Pro-Democracy Demonstrators Said to Be Killed in Guinea -- New York Times
US 'deeply concerned' on Guinea, urges restraint -- AFP
Guinea Forces Fire on Coup Protesters -- Wall Street Journal
Guinean Security Forces Kill at Least 69 Protestors -- Bloomberg
Guinea: Ban condemns ‘excessive use of force’ against protesters -- UN News Center

Guinea Junta Appoints Government

From The BBC:

Guinea's military leaders have named a government made up of military officers and technocrats three weeks after they seized power.

Soldiers hold the key finance, justice, and defence portfolios.

No representatives from political parties have been appointed but former banker Mahmoud Thiam has been put in charges of the mines sector.

The junta have promised to stand down and hold elections this year, according to a senior French official.

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West African Bloc Suspends Guinea

From The BBC:

A West African regional bloc says it is suspending Guinea from its ranks until the military leadership, which seized power last month, holds elections.

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) said Guinea would be barred from all meetings until constitutional order was restored.

Capt Moussa Dadis Camara led a coup after the death of President Lansana Conte, who had ruled since 1984.

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