http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/324/ en_GB_uk Guinea http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82185 Many of the frustrations that led Guineans to the streets in violent protest a year ago remain unchanged, and threaten to break the hard-won peace in this fragile country, agencies report. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/77157 President Olusegun Obasanjo has appointed former President Ibrahim Babangida as special envoy at the head of a peace mission to Guinea in an attempt to stem continuing violence there. + Video update http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/77070 Riots sparked by discontent over the government have prompted autocratic President Lansana Conte to declare martial law in Guinea, keeping the country's Red Cross from tending to the hundreds wounded in the previous days clashes. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76821 Celebrating Guineans took to the streets of Conakry on Saturday night after the ending of an 18-day nationwide general strike that paralysed business and administrative activities. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76668 An international trades union organisation has condemned the killing of at least three people and the wounding and arrest of many others when Guinea's security forces opened fire on a peaceful demonstration in support of a general strike. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76600 After a day of clashes between security forces and protestors in Conakry, union leaders yesterday evening presented Guinean President Lansana Conte with an ultimatum to either reform his government or face mass nationwide demonstrations. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/76015 There is growing momentum against the traditional but harmful practice of female genital cutting in Africa, said an organization that helped about 150 communities to publicly abandon the practice in Guinea. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/72818 Serious violations of trade union rights are occurring in Guinea, including death threats against union leaders, warn international union groupings. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71627 After a chase of over 1,000 miles, a six-day occupation and hours of diplomatic negotiations, Spain has finally agreed to declare the cargo from the "Binar 4'" - 200 tonnes of fish from West Africa - illegal. Guinean officials also announced they would be fining the owners and operators of the vessel. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/71531 Activists have climbed on board what they claim is "an illegal cargo vessel full of fish stolen from Guinean waters" and painted the words "Stolen Fish" on both sides of its hull. http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/118456/1/ The small West African Republic of Guinea has taken an important step towards guaranteeing press freedom by opening the airwaves to private broadcasters. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/65663 A girls’ soccer tournament in Upper Guinea last month capitalized on the local soccer craze to spread messages about preventing HIV/AIDS, STDs, and unwanted pregnancy. The program proved so successful that the Ministry of Health will soon replicate it among young adults in other parts of the country. http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/57132 Angry Sierra Leoneans are demanding that their government ask Guinea to withdraw its troops from their territory which they occupied five years ago. Troops from Guinea occupied the eastern border town of Yenga during Sierra Leone's civil war between the rebels of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and government forces. http://uk.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/53076 The first refugees to take part in a government refugee resettlement scheme have arrived in the UK. The programme will be run on a quota basis, initially set at 500 people a year. The first group of refugees to arrive in the UK escaped war in Liberia and have been living in refugee camps for up to ten years in Sierra Leone and Guinea. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/43499 Life was difficult enough for the 50 children--most under the age of 12--living at the Golden Rule orphanage in northern Liberia. Then the war came.