Guinea

Guinea opposition rejects proposal for unity govt

OUAGADOUGOU, Burkina Faso, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Guinea's opposition on Friday rejected a proposal that it join the ruling military junta in a transitional government and said it was considering abandoning mediation talks. The...

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Of Twitter, Plagiarism and Online Journalism

Posted by Zach Lowe As online journalists, we bristle when people think the standards for Web stories are lower than for those in print. In the first, the Journal Inquirer of Manchester, a family-owned paper based outside of...

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Africa: Opacity Blamed for Bad Oil Deals in Africa

Campaigners from fifty countries from around the world meeting in Montreal, Canada to strategise on pushing further the frontiers of transparency in oil, gas, and mining industries, have blamed opacity in oil and mineral...

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Guinea, Senegal Ministers Meet Vice President

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.

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Firm Vice Chairman Uses Twitter to Strike Back at NYT Reporter for Story on Client

Cassidy & Associates vice chairman Gregg Hartley didn't like a critical New York Times story on one of the firm's biggest clients, Equatorial Guinea. So he's hitting back against the reporter using an unusual vehicle: his...

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Activist probing Guinea massacre denied entry!

Updated on Thursday, November 19, 2009, 16:31 IST Tags: Banjul: 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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US concerned by reported SA training in Guinea

WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES Nov 20 2009 08:28 The United States is "deeply concerned" by reports that South African "military instructors" are training militiamen backed by the ruling junta in Guinea, a US official said Thursday....

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NEC Corrects Mistakes

The National Elections Commission (NEC), having been heavily criticized for the rather contemptible manner in which it conducted the first round of the Montserrado County Senatorial By-election appears poised to correct its...

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Ethan Zuckerman: From compassion to action, from action to knowledge

I’ve opened a lot of lectures lately – presentations about our Media Cloud research at Berkman – by complaining about the New York Times’s Africa coverage. I cite the fact that Japan tends to average roughly 8-10 times as many...

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UN begins probe of deadly Guinea crackdown

LAGOS, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has met with members of the Commission of Inquiry set up to probe the Sept. 28 crackdown on unarmed demonstrators in Guinea, a UN statement reaching...

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