Following the violence that erupted in Upper Guinea, the two second-round candidates have called for calm, asking for their supporters and activists to avoid violence and said they want go to elections as soon as possible, in...

Arrested Thursday, October 14, President of the United Democratic Forces (UDF), an unauthorized opposition party, was already under court supervision since last April.

Africa is full of raw materials (oil, bauxite, timber, etc.); but this wealth is also a weakness because national economies are often based on only one of these resources. In addition, weak local processing industries and the...

The Malian General, expert in electoral matters, will thus have the difficult task as President of the INEC to monitor the second round of presidential elections in Guinea, scheduled to take place on Sunday.

The State Department is encouraging the Ivorian and Guinean leaders to assume their responsibilities to the end. The U.N Special Representative for the Ivory Coast, Mr. Young J. Choi, received the Director of West African Affairs of...

Floods in West and Central Africa have killed at least 377 deaths and affected nearly 1.5 million people since the beginning of the rainy season in June 2010, said the United Nations Office for the Coordination of...

Finally the Congolese senator, Jean-Pierre Bemba, formerly vice president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, is charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity for his alleged role in atrocities carried out in the neighbouring Central African...

The president of the West African Development Bank (WADB), Abdoulaye Bio-Tchane, announced the signing of two financing agreements, constituting the sixth of its kind between BOAD and the National Electricity Company of Burkina Faso (SONABEL). Burkina Faso...

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda are determined to bring peace and thus fostering the conditions for optimal development for the countries and people of the Great Lakes sub-region.

Organised June 27, 2010, the first round of elections had dangled an honourable exit from the long crisis, but four months later, the bitterness, anger, indignation or resignation, begin to earn even the most optimistic: Guineans, until...