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	Guinea (04/07)
		Guinea is a constitutional republic in which effective power is concentrated in a strong presidency.
		The president governs Guinea with the assistance of an appointed council of civilian ministers typically led by a prime minister.
		Guinea reestablished relations with France and Germany in 1975, and with neighboring Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal in 1978.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2824.htm (4902 words)

	History of Guinea-Bissau
		The rivers of Guinea and the islands of Cape Verde were among the first areas in Africa explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century.
		In 1630, a "captaincy-general" of Portuguese Guinea was established to administer the territory.
		President Yala neither vetoed nor promulgated the new constitution that was approved by the National Assembly in April 2001.
	www.historyofnations.net /africa/guinea-bissau.html (940 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Guine Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Guinea its beautiful country with perhaps the greatest agriculture potential of all the former French territories in West Africa, Guinea was for 20 years after independence hidden from the outside world by its own isolationist policies, a reaction to the abrupt withdrawal of French aid.
		The Susu predominate near the coast, the Kissi in the Guinea Highlands and the Tenda in the east.
		Guinea-Bissau formerly Portuguese Guinea is one of the smallest and poorest nation in West Africa, and one of the poorest in the world.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Africa/Guinea (3455 words)

	Guinea-Bissau president to be put on trial
		The president of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, João Bernardo Viera, is to be put on trial for his failure to halt arms trading to Casamance separatists in neighbouring Senegal.
		The coup was sparked when President Viera sacked army chief General Ansumane Mane on June 6, 1998, in connection with the alleged arms trafficking to separatists in Casamance.
		While putting the president on trial, the commission cleared the leader of the coup, General Ansumane Mane, of "wrongdoing" and stated that during the inquiry "no-one directly or indirectly accused Mane of involvement in arms trafficking".
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/apr1999/guin-a27.shtml (1039 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Africa
		HISTORY The rivers of Guinea and the islands of Cape Verde were among the first areas in Africa explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century.
		In 1630, a "captaincy-general" of Portuguese Guinea was established to administer the territory.
		The administrative capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/guineabissau9404.html (2190 words)

	USAID Guinea / Education/News:Presidential Initiative Brings Textbooks to Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A ceremony was held in Conakry, Guinea to celebrate the distribution of 500,000 textbooks to grade schools throughout Guinea.
		Guinea is the first of six African countries to have benefited from the textbook component of the Initiative.
		President Bush’s Africa Education Initiative through USAID is concrete testimony to the support of African educational systems in Guinea and elsewhere in Africa by the American government.
	www.usaid.gov /gn/education/news/040521_pres_initiative (821 words)

	Amazones Woman Master Drummers of Guinea - Education / Guinea
		Guinea, a former French colony in West Africa, is a tropical country about the size of Oregon.
		Guineas dry season runs between November and May. Once the dry season vanishes, the wet season descends upon the country, pouring rain over the landscape, on and off between May and November.
		The Upper Guinea region, a basin of the Niger River, is a grassy savanna, punctuated with plains and rolling hills.
	www.amazoneswomandrummers.com /guinea.html (932 words)

	Guinea's president declares martial law - Boston.com
		Last month, Conte agreed to appoint a consensus prime minister who was not a member of his government in a deal to end a two-week national strike that brought Guinea to an economic standstill and sparked clashes that left at least 59 dead.
		Guinea's 10 million people are impoverished and many live without the most basic public services, even though the country has half the world's reserves of bauxite, used to produce aluminum.
		In a television address Monday, Conte said Guinea was in a "state of siege" -- an emergency declaration that puts the military in control of the country.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2007/02/13/martial_law_instituted_by_guinean_leader (844 words)

	Guinea
		Guinea has had ongoing difficulties with its neighbor Liberia, which was embroiled in a long civil war during the 1990s and again in 2000–2003.
		Guinea had taken sides against rebel leader Charles Taylor in Liberia's civil war and was part of the Nigerian-led ECOMOG forces that intervened in the crisis.
		Guinea, Gulf of - Guinea, Gulf of, large open arm of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the great bend of the coast of W...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107600.html (867 words)

	The Raw Story \| Guinea's President Conte agrees to change prime minister
		Guinea's embattled President Lansana Conte has agreed to change his prime minister and the west African country's trade unions will end a crippling general strike, union leader Ibrahima Fofana said Sunday.
		"President Conte has agreed to a scenario that ends the crisis by naming a consensus prime minister by March 2 among candidates, three of them proposed by the trade unions and two by civil society leaders," Fofana said.
		When the ailing Conte, who has ruled Guinea since 1984, filled the vacant post of prime minister with Camara, the appointment only deepened the strife and the president declared a state of siege, strengthening the powers of the military.
	rawstory.com /news/afp/Guinea_s_President_Conte_agrees_to__02252007.html (277 words)

	Guinea President Dismisses Top Military Officials
		Guinea's President Lansana Conte has dismissed several top military officials, including the minister of defense, after a week of protests by soldiers angry over back pay and military leadership.
		Guinea's Minister of Defense General Arafan Camara, armed forces chief General Kerfalla Camara (no relation) and his assistant, along with one other top military official, have been removed from their positions.
		Guinea analyst Gilles Yabi with International Crisis Group says that while the soldiers' demonstrations are not directly connected to general strikes earlier this year, both resulted from poverty, deteriorating services and perceived corruption.
	www.voanews.com /english/2007-05-12-voa10.cfm (489 words)

	ABC News: Guinea's President to Appoint New PM
		Guinea's embattled president has agreed to appoint a new prime minister with boosted powers, officials said Friday, announcing a deal that could end a two-week strike that left at least 60 people dead.
		President Lansana Conte agreed to create the post by presidential decree, said Conakry Archbishop Vincent Gomez, who was part of a commission set up to submit a proposal to the president detailing the new prime minister's powers as head of government.
		Guinea is legally ruled under a presidential system without a prime ministerial post, but Conte has appointed three in the past, relying on articles of the constitution that allow him to cede power to others.
	www.abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=2828153 (422 words)

	Military topples President in Guinea-Bissau coup - Sify.com
		President Kumba Yala is under arrest, according to the Lusa news agency in the former colonial power Portugal, which carried an announcement by the Guinea-Bissau army chief of staff of the seizure of "constitutional power" in the country.
		Induta said a curfew was in effect and called for calm, while army headquarters called on the people to avoid acts of vandalism.
		Guinea-Bissau's first president since it achieved independence in 1974, Luis Cabral, was overthrown by the army in 1980.
	sify.com /fullstory.php?id=13250905 (509 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Guinea president survives attempt on life
		Shots were fired at a convoy carrying Guinea President Lansana Conte on Wednesday, in what security officials said was an attempt on the life of the ailing West African head of state.
		Heavy security was clamped down around Conakry in the aftermath of the event, which left the ailing president unscathed, with armed and riot gear-clad guards stationed outside the presidential palace and the national radio station, although broadcasts were not yet suspended.
		Many West African and western diplomats fear Guinea could be the next trouble spot in the restive region, following Conte's amendment of the constitution in 2003 to allow him to stand for another term and due to the tensions in neighbours Ivory Coast and Liberia.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/404918.htm (371 words)

	Yet Another President in Guinea-Bissau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		West African leaders are urging quick international assistance for Guinea-Bissau, whose new president Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was sworn in this weekend facing a massive cholera epidemic and fears of continuing political instability.
		The new president, wearing a fl suit and red tie, pledged to consolidate national unity and the law while promising to modernise the country, defend freedom of expression and reform the army.
		One of the six poorest countries in the world, according to the UN Human Development Index, Guinea-Bissau has been unable to pay its civil servants for the past three months and its health and education systems are in dire straits.
	www.ocnus.net /artman/publish/article_20579.shtml (517 words)

	President of Guinea-Bissau requests Security Council help with salaries, elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		After a closed-door meeting, President Rosa told journalists that he made two requests of the 15-member body during his first-ever encounter with the Council.
		Joining him at the meeting to brief the Council were the President of the UN Economic and Social Council, Ambassador Gert Rosenthal of Guatemala, the Representative of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Nana Akufo Addo, and Henrique Valle, representative of the Community of Portuguese-speaking countries.
		The Government of President Kumba Yala failed to pay salaries, leading to waves of strikes by teachers, health care workers and other government employees.
	www.un.org /apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=8928&Cr=guinea&Cr1=bissau (407 words)

	Guinea-Bissau president detained at army headquarters after coup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Guinea-Bissau President Kumba Yala and Prime Minister Mario Pires are at armed forces headquarters after their arrest in Sunday's coup, a military source said.
		The source confirmed that the president was present at the armed forces headquarters but declined to say whether Yala had been arrested.
		The Lusa news agency in the former colonial power Portugal had reported that was being held by soldiers in the wake of the apparently bloodless coup in the small west African state.
	www.spacewar.com /2003/030914133154.wnv9261k.html (153 words)

	NDI - National Democratic Institute
		President Lansana Conté rose to power through a coup in 1984 and has served as Guinea's president ever since.
		Mediation efforts by Ibrahima Babangida, special ECOWAS envoy for Guinea and former president of Nigeria, coupled with the refusal by the National Assembly (dominated by his own party) to extend a state of emergency, led President Conté to appoint Lansana Kouyate, a veteran diplomat, prime minister on February 26.
		NDI also organized a series of colloquia in Guinea's capital, Conakry, and in each of the country's regions, that brought together political party leaders and government officials to discuss topics such as the need for neutral administration of the electoral process and ways to work collaboratively to reduce political violence.
	www.ndi.org /worldwide/cewa/guinea/guinea.asp (882 words)

	World InfoZone - Guinea-Bissau Facts
		Luis Cabral was overthrown in a coup led by Joao Bernardo Vieira in 1980.
		A civil war in 1998 led to the involvement of forces from Senegal and Guinea in support of the government.
		In 2005 former President Vieira was re-elected president of Guinea-Bissau.
	www.worldinfozone.com /facts.php?country=GuineaBissau (232 words)

	Guinean President escapes attempt on life
		Guinea President Lansana Conte escaped an apparent assassination attempt on Wednesday when gunmen opened fire on his convoy in the capital of the West African nation, police and state television said.
		President of Guinea Lansana Conte addresses the 54th Session of the General Assembly at the United Nations in this Sept. 24, 1999 file photo.
		Gunmen fired on a convoy carrying Guinea President Lansana Conte in an apparent assassination attempt in the capital on Wednesday Jan. 19, 2005 security officials said.
	www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2005-01/20/content_410676.htm (413 words)

	Office of The Gambian President: State House Online: Yahya A.J.J. Jammeh
		President Yalla was speaking on Tuesday at a press briefing held at the Banjul International Airport after a tete with his host, President Dr. Alhaji Yahya A.J.J Jammeh.
		President Yalla emphasized the need for the new breed of African politicians to work in close collaboration in order to promote peace, unity and development on the continent.
		President Yalla said that as a member of ECOWAS he thought it prudent to consult President Jammeh on the issue.
	www.statehouse.gm /yallavisit30sept.htm (340 words)

	President of Equatorial Guinea State Visit 2006 - Backgrounder
		President Obiang, reopened schools, expanded primary education, restored public utilities and roads and put the nation on the path of participatory democracy.
		Referred to as the "Dachau of Africa," Equatorial Guinea under Macias saw a civilian population terrorized by the government to the point that as much as a third of the nation was executed, exiled or emigrated.
		President Obiang served as president, and was re-elected for seven-year terms in 1989, 1996 and 2003.
	www.news.ops.gov.ph /equatorialguinea-backgrounder.htm (6280 words)

	afrol News - More critique against Guinea-Bissau President
		If the President not was willing to share power with a national unity government, then he should agree to the holding of anticipated legislative and presidential elections, which the civil society groups favoured.
		The main political parties, including the Guinea-Bissau Resistance Party and the African Party for Independence in Guinea, jointly said President Yala was "the principal obstacle" to the small country's "peace and development." Therefore, the President should step down.
		In September, church bishops had called for national reconciliation saying the country was facing hard times due to lack of government action, frequent leadership changes and a succession of ministers and judges, failure to draft a new constitution approved by the national assembly, and human rights violations, according to UN agency reports.
	www.afrol.com /News2002/gub008_civ_soc_yala.htm (573 words)

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		CONAKRY, 27 Oct 2003 (IRIN) - President Lansana Conte of Guinea has returned from a 10-day private visit to Cuba, during which he was widely believed to have received medical treatment.
		There was no official announcement of the president's return, but Conte, who left for Cuba on 15 October, was seen driving conspicuously through the capital Conakry on Saturday afternoon.
		However, the president has been unwell for several years and is now seldom seen in public.
	irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=37484&...&SelectCountry=GUINEA (393 words)

	President of Equatorial Guinea Sets Free 6 Armenian Pilots on His Birthday - NEWS - MOSNEWS.COM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Equatorial Guinea has pardoned six members of an Armenian flight crew convicted last year of plotting to overthrow the president of the tiny West African country, Reuters reported Monday quoting Armenia’s Foreign Ministry.
		The Armenians were among dozens of foreigners jailed in Equatorial Guinea and Zimbabwe over the aborted coup, which Mark Thatcher, son of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, has been accused of helping to finance.
		The pardon was issued by Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, Hamlet Gasparyan, spokesman for the Armenian Foreign Ministry, said.
	www.mosnews.com /news/2005/06/06/armenianpilots.shtml (472 words)

	Former Guinea-Bissau President Freed (phillyBurbs.com) \| Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau - Soldiers have released this tiny West African nation's deposed president from house arrest, six months after he was ousted in a bloodless coup.
		Elected president in 2000, Yala was broadly unpopular during his erratic time in office.
		Coup leaders, who accused him of ruining the country, set up a National Transition Council and installed a prime minister and president to rule until elections could be held.
	www.phillyburbs.com /pb-dyn/news/91-03092004-261197.html (261 words)

	Guineans Call for President to Step Down - washingtonpost.com
		Monday, February 12, 2007; 4:31 PM CONAKRY, Guinea -- President Lansana Conte declared a state of emergency in Guinea on Monday, saying he had ordered the army to "take all necessary measures" to restore order after three days of violent protests.
		The president of Guinea's national assembly called for union and community leaders to return to negotiations with the government, according to a statement read on FM Liberty.
		Guinea's 10 million people are impoverished and many live without the most basic public services, even though the country has half the world's reserves of bauxite, a material used to produce aluminum.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/12/AR2007021200789.html (740 words)

	Guinea-Bissau, Africa Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In 1994 VIEIRA was elected president in the country's first free elections.
		In September 2003, after only three years in office, YALA was ousted by the military in a bloodless coup, and businessman Henrique ROSA was sworn in as interim president.
		In 2005, former President VIEIRA was re-elected president pledging to pursue economic development and national reconciliation.
	guinea-bissau.africa.com (164 words)

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