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Guinea

March 2026

  • Soldiers rappell from a helicopter on to the deck of a ship at night

    Suspected Russian ‘shadow fleet’ tanker seized in North Sea

    Belgian special forces boarded the Ethera, which was sailing under the flag of Guinea, on Saturday night

December 2025

  • Mamady Doumbouya watches over a parade dressed in military uniform with medals

    Guinea’s junta chief elected president after opposition boycott

  • Doumbouya, wearing sunglasses and loose white clothing, waves after submitting his candidacy at the supreme court in November

    Opposition anger as Guinea’s junta leader is frontrunner to be elected president

  • A man wearing glasses, a face mask and a baseball cap with a small monkey on his shoulder

    The age of extinction
    ‘I consider him my first son’: how living with a baby monkey taught me I’m ready to be a dad

  • Soldiers patrol the streets of Benin.

    Troops and warplanes deployed in Benin after ‘failed coup attempt’

October 2025

  • Souleymane's Story Press publicity film still

    Souleymane’s Story review – superb performance ballasts drama of man clinging on in the margins in Paris

    Abou Sangaré is magnificent in a story that shines light on the enforced invisibility of economic migrants

April 2025

  • Men outside SAJED-Guinée

    ‘Kush destroys them’: the Guinean rehab clinic tackling a drug epidemic

    Experts say a crisis is under way in Guinea, fuelled by a growing market run by cross-border trafficking syndicates

March 2025

  • Workers sitting on a rail support column

    A ‘bridge to prosperity’? Guinea’s junta touts opening of mining megaproject

  • Hand holding a smartphone in the foreground, as men sit on parked motorcycles behind, with some also looking at their phones

    Internet shutdowns at record high in Africa as access ‘weaponised’

February 2025

  • Doumbouya raises his hand at his swearing-in ceremony as interim president, 1 October 2021, in Conakry. He wears a pale military jacket with medals, white gloves, a red beret and black sunglasses

    ‘Each of us is afraid’: Guinea’s junta leader tightens grip as opposition lies low

    Mamady Doumbouya has led the country since a 2021 coup. Some fear he has no intention of relinquishing power

December 2024

  • People clamber over a wall into streets outside the stadium

    At least 56 people killed in crush at Guinea football stadium

    Witnesses say people scrambled to escape after teargas used during pitch invasion at match in Nzérékoré

September 2024

  • Three men shake hands in front of a loading pallet piled with boxes.

    DRC receives first donation of 100,000 mpox vaccines to contain outbreak

    Jab not yet approved for children, who make up most cases, while officials warn millions more doses will be required

July 2024

  • Moussa Dadis Camara

    Guinea court finds former dictator guilty in stadium massacre trial

    Moussa Dadis Camara convicted of crimes against humanity after ordering 2009 crackdown on unarmed protesters

December 2023

  • Colombian authorities speak with a young boy at an airport setting.

    Two Guinean children abandoned in Bogotá airport as migrant routes shift

  • An explosion at the main oil terminal in Guinea's capital has killed at least eight people and wounded dozens

    Explosion in Guinea oil terminal kills at least eight people – video

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November 2023

  • Guinea's former military junta chief, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara speaking in Conakry

    Former Guinea dictator Moussa Dadis Camara recaptured after armed prison escape

    Former junta leader back in jail hours after commando raid his lawyer says was an abduction

October 2023

  • Four African women with small babies wait in a tent

    Climate crisis is ‘not gender neutral’: UN calls for more policy focus on women

    Only a third of countries with climate crisis plans include access to sexual, maternal and newborn health services, UNFPA report finds

August 2023

  • French military personnel register French and other European citizens outside the departures terminal of Diori Hamani international airport in Niamey

    Military intervention in Niger is ‘last resort’, says west African bloc

    Defence chiefs demand reinstatement of president after coup, which triggered exodus of foreign nationals

May 2023

  • A baby is held while an injection goes into its leg

    Fair access
    Pneumonia vaccine delays kill thousands needlessly in Africa

    Access to PCV jabs in South Sudan, Somalia, Guinea and Chad ‘could save 40,000 children a year’

January 2023

  • Pepe embraces Michelle, his caregiver, while they explore the habitat that surrounds the sanctuary

    The Guardian picture essay
    On the edge of extinction: why western chimpanzees matter – photo essay

    Photojournalist Roberto García Roa has been working with the Chimpanzee Conservation Centre in Guinea, one of the few international institutions trying to protect critically endangered western chimpanzees
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