CONAKRY, 27 March 2007 (IRIN) - Tensions continue to run high in Guinea with some 3,000 students taking to the streets on Monday in the town of Labe, 600 km north east of the capital Conakry, which saw violent clashes between protesters and police during several weeks of anti-government riots earlier this year.
“We are the forgotten people of the republic,” said Amamdou Toure, a protesting student from the University of Labe. “This place does not have what it needs to make it a normal university.”
The demonstrations mostly took place around the university where students have been on strike since 22 March, according to university authorities and students contacted by telephone.
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Markets in Conakry started to come alive on Thursday but prices have soared
CONAKRY, 25 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - Although the rutted main streets of Guinea’s capital, Conakry, remained mostly deserted and shops were shuttered because of a nationwide strike, kiosks were opening for business on Thursday– to turn a profit.
“I came to the market to buy rice and sauce ingredients because there’s nothing left at home,” said Camara Saran Traore, shopping for a family of five in the Taouyah district. “I found that with my 50,000 GNF (US $9) I can’t buy anything. I have had to completely scale down what we are going to eat.”
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Guinea News: Unprecedented violence hits capital and provinces
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Guineans protesting against President Conte on Monday flee shooting by the army in central Conakry
CONAKRY, 22 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - Security forces shot dead at least 20 people on Monday as tens of thousands of Guineans turned out to demonstrate against President Lansana Conte in the biggest nationwide show of discontent in his 23-year rule.
In the capital, Conakry, violent clashes between protestors and the Guinean army were reported in most of the sprawling city’s suburbs, with protestors “pouring” into main city streets from as far as 20km outside the city centre, witnesses said. Eleven corpses with gunshot wounds were admitted to one city morgue, and six others to morgues elsewhere, hospital staff told IRIN. Three other people were reported killed in the often violent suburb of Hambaleye.
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CONAKRY, 16 February 2007 (IRIN) - “The boss made reference to President Lansana Conte and gave us the order to shoot anyone provocative, so whoever provokes me, I will shoot him without any hesitation,” said a Kalashnikov-toting soldier in the main street outside the Donka hospital in central Conakry on Thursday, who refused to give his name.
The NGO Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Friday security forces have killed at least 22 people using this justification since last weekend.
Of those, HRW said at least one was killed since President Conte imposed 10 days of martial law on Monday night, although news reports have recorded nine people killed around the country since then.
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Guinea News: Alpha Abdoulaye Barry, He was shooting into the crowd
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Alpha Abdoulaye Barry, said he was shot by the Guinean army during protests
CONAKRY, 22 Jan 2007 (IRIN) - “My parents forbade me to go out of the house because of the marches. I waited for many hours on the bed, but then I needed to go to the toilet."
“There are no toilets in our house, so I went outside in the street. At that moment I heard shouting and shooting just a few metres away.”
“I ran back into the house and saw a soldier behind me. He was shooting into the crowd and one of the bullets hit me in the shoulder.”
“I immediately fell on the floor, and some minutes later the Red Cross came and took me to the hospital with my father.”
“I got first aid, but it still really hurts.”
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