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 A West African nation, south of Senegal and Mali, and member of ECOWAS. The capital is Conakry.
 (SFC, 5/8/96, p.A-18)(WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)(SFC, 2/2/99, p.A9)
1958        Sep 28, Voters in the African country of Guinea overwhelmingly favored independence from France.
    (AP, 9/28/08)

1958        Oct 2, The former French colony of Guinea in West Africa proclaimed its independence from France under the leadership of Sekou Toure.
    (WP, 6/29/96, p.A15)(AP, 10/2/97)

1966        Mar 3, Kwame Nkrumah fled Ghana to Guinée.
    (SC, 3/3/02)

1969        Stokely Carmichael, black power advocate, moved to Guinea.
    (SFC, 11/16/98, p.A7)

1973        Oct 3, Sierra Leone’s President Stevens engineered the creation of the Mano River Union, an economic federation of Sierra Leone and Liberia. Guinea joined in 1980.
    (http://tinyurl.com/58uymq)

1978        Stokely Carmichael, civil rights and black power advocate, changed his name to Kwame Ture in honor of Kwame Nkrumah and Ahmed Sekou Toure, 2 African socialist leaders in Guinea.
    (SFC, 11/16/98, p.A7)

1980        Guinea joined the Mano River Union, an economic federation of Sierra Leone and Liberia created in 1973. Due to conflicts involving the countries the objectives of the Union could not be achieved. The union was reactivated in 2004.
    (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mano_River_Union)

1984        In Guinea Lansana Conte seized power in a coup after the death of his predecessor, Ahmed Sekou Toure.
    (SFC, 12/18/98, p.D9)(AP, 9/29/09)

1993        In Guinea Lansana Conte formed a political party and won the country's first multiparty presidential election.
    (AP, 9/29/09)

1996        In Guinea soldiers angry over low pay bombard the presidential palace for several days while Conte was holed up inside. He emerged unscathed, offered raises to his attackers and later named a prime minister for the first time.
    (AP, 9/29/09)
1996        Sidya Toure, Guinea’s reformist prime minister, complained shortly after taking office that 50,000 civil servants in the country were consuming 51% of the nation’s wealth.
    (WSJ, 1/2/98, p.8)

1997        The French documentary film “Donka: X-Ray of an African Hospital” was shown at the SF Film Festival. It focused on a public hospital in the Guinean capital of Conakry.
    (SFC, 4/23/97, p.D1)

1998        Jun 9, Senegal and Guinea sent troops to aid Pres. Vieira in Guinea-Bissau. Rebels led by Ansumane Mane had just staged a coup to end the 18-year rule of Pres. Vieira, who was accused of corruption.
    (SFC, 6/10/98, p.A9)

1998        Jun, A rebellion was triggered by the dismissal of Brigadier Ansumane Mane. The top military commander was dismissed for allegedly running guns to separatist fighters in Senegal.
    (SFC, 2/2/99, p.A9)

1998        Nov 15, Kwame Ture, aka Stokely Carmichael, died in Guinea at age 57.
    (SFC, 11/16/98, p.A7)

1998        Dec 14, In Guinea Lansana Conte was re-elected president to a 7-year term with 54.1% of the vote. The opposition rejected as flawed.
    (SFC, 12/18/98, p.D9)(AP, 9/29/09)

1998        The Guinean film “Dakan” was made by Mohamed Camara.
    (SFC, 5/20/98, p.E3)

1998        Alpha Conde, opposition leader, was arrested for plotting to topple the government of Pres. Lansana Conte. Conde was convicted in 2000 and sentenced to 5 years in prison. 47 co-defendants were also convicted and sentenced to lesser terms.
    (SFC, 9/13/00, p.A14)

1999        Mar 8, Guinea said that it had reinforced its border with Sierra Leone following the fall of Kambia to rebels and raids by rebels against Guinean villages.
    (SFC, 3/9/99, p.B10)

1999        Aug 11, In Liberia 6 European relief workers were kidnapped in Kolahun by insurgents based in Guinea.
    (SFC, 8/13/99, p.D2)

1999        Aug 13, In Liberia 7 abducted aid workers were freed and some 90 other UN and foreign workers fled into Guinea to avoid fighting.
    (SFC, 8/14/99, p.C1)

2000        Jul, Rebels from Guinea crossed into northern Liberia to fight government forces.
    (SFC, 9/18/00, p.A8)

2000        Sep 1, In Guinea 50 people were killed by attackers on Massadou village.
    (SFC, 9/18/00, p.A8)

2000        Sep 17, In Guinea a UN worker, Mensah Kpognon, was killed in Macenta where attackers also burned down the military garrison. Gunmen from Liberia were blamed. A second worker, Sapeu Laurence Djeya, was also kidnapped in the raid, and later released.
    (SFC, 9/18/00, p.A8)(SFC, 9/29/00, p.D2)(AP, 9/17/01)

2000        Nov 6, It was reported that at least 600 people had been killed since mid-September in cross-border attacks from Sierra Leone. Some 500,000 refugees had settled here in the last ten years seeking shelter from wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia
    (SFC, 11/7/00, p.B2)

2002        Jun 30, The ruling party of Guinea's president hoped to win big in long-delayed legislative elections, but most opposition parties boycotted the ballot.
    (AP, 6/30/02)

2002        Jul 20, Refugees in flight from Liberia's war surged to 200,000, and those reaching safety in neighboring Guinea spoke of worsening atrocities by President Charles Taylor's forces: looting, raping, burning and killing trapped villagers.
    (AP, 7/20/02)

2002        Zach Niles, Banker White and Chris Veland, novice American filmmakers, visited Guinea and discovered a group of musicians in the Sembakounya Refugee Camp called the Refugee All Stars. Members had left Sierra Leone in 1999. Niles and White made a film of the group, which gained int’l recognition and by 2006 organized a tour for the group in the US.
    (SFC, 7/13/06, p.E1)

2003        Dec 21, Guinea's longtime leader Lansana Conte was expected to easily win another term as president in elections after an opposition boycott left a little-known parliamentarian as the only challenger for the post.
    (AP, 12/21/03)

2003        Dec 25, Guinea's ailing President Lansana Conte was declared the victor in presidential elections boycotted by the opposition, securing a landslide victory with over 95 percent of the vote, according to provisional results.
    (AP, 12/25/03)

2004        Jul, Guinea state radio announced that a 25-year-old miner found a 182-carat diamond near the southeast border. By contrast the Hope diamond is 45.52 carats.
    (SFC, 7/20/04, p.A12)

2005        Jan, In Guinea shots were fired at the presidential cavalcade as it entered Conakry.
    (Econ, 7/23/05, p.44)

2005        Feb, Mamadouba “Toto” Camara, a popular Guinean lieutenant was arrested.
    (Econ, 7/23/05, p.44)

2005        Jun 29, The US military said it sent a ship to Africa's oil-rich Gulf of Guinea to train west African nations to combat threats including terrorism, drug trafficking and petroleum theft.
    (AP, 6/29/05)

2005        Guinea’s population was about 8 million.
    (Econ, 7/23/05, p.44)

2006        Jun 12, In Guinea students infuriated by a postponement of exams protested in Conakry, the capital and in Labe, with some throwing rocks and burning tires. The Red Cross said six people were killed during the demonstrations.
    (AP, 6/12/06)

2006        Nov 6, Transparency International, a watchdog group, reported that nearly three-quarters of 163 countries ranked in a new survey suffer from a perception of serious corruption, while in nearly half it is seen as rampant. Finland, Iceland and New Zealand ranked as the least corrupt, while Haiti, Guinea and Myanmar ranked as most corrupt.
    (AP, 11/6/06)(Econ, 11/11/06, p.69)

2007        Jan 10, In Guinea shop, government and business workers held a general strike, heeding a union call for protests after President Lansana Conte decided to free two corruption suspects. Unions demanded that Mamadou Sylla and Fode Soumah, who have been charged with embezzling public funds and imprisoned in Conakry on December 6, be put back in jail. The strike threatened the world’s surplus of alumina, used to make aluminum. Guinea accounted for 10% of the world’s bauxite exports and 30% of its reserves.
    (AFP, 1/10/07)(WSJ, 1/25/07, p.A13)

2007        Jan 19, In Guinea 2 people were killed when police and troops opened fire on thousands of demonstrators, raising the death toll to five since a general strike was launched in the west African nation this month.
    (AFP, 1/19/07)

2007        Jan 21, Embattled Guinean President Lansana Conte called on his country's armed forces to stand united in the face of a crippling general strike that has claimed 10 lives as pressure mounted for him to resign. The African Union called on Pres. Conte to pursue talks with trade union leaders to ease a 12-day-old strike.
    (AFP, 1/21/07)

2007        Jan 22, In Guinea security forces fired on protesters marching on the presidential palace. At least 30 people were killed and over a hundred injured.
    (Econ, 1/27/07, p.48)

2007        Jan 25, Guinea’s Health Ministry said battles between security forces and protesters earlier this week killed at least 59 people, almost double the toll previously reported.
    (AP, 1/25/07)

2007        Jan 27, Guinea's union leaders ended a deadly 17-day strike after the president agreed to name a new prime minister with boosted powers.
    (AP, 1/27/07)

2007        Feb 9, In Guinea President Lansana Conte named Eugene Camara, a recently appointed cabinet member, as prime minister. The move was apparently aimed at appeasing union leaders who led a crippling two-week strike. Under an agreement signed by the two sides, the new PM cannot have previously served in the government.
    (AP, 2/9/07)

2007        Feb 10, In Guinea at least four people were killed in Conakry as protesters rioted against the president's decision to appoint a political ally as prime minister.
    (AP, 2/10/07)

2007        Feb 13, In Guinea citizens were banned from leaving their homes as a strict curfew took effect in this West African country after the president instituted martial law following days of deadly protests.
    (AP, 2/13/07)

2007        Feb 16, A spokesperson said the UN has allocated $2.35 million from an emergency fund to provide humanitarian aid to Guinea, which is in the midst of a tense nationwide strike.
    (AP, 2/16/07)

2007        Feb 25, Guinea's powerful union chiefs called off a crippling strike after the president agreed to appoint a new prime minister in an attempt to end simmering unrest that has killed scores of people this year. Conte later appointed Lansana Kouyate as prime minister, from a list approved by union leaders.
    (AP, 2/25/07)(AP, 9/29/09)

2007        Mar 5, African Union commission chief Alpha Oumar Konare urged Guinea's President Lansana Conte to step down as he voiced solidarity with recent protests against the veteran leader.
    (AP, 3/5/07)

2007        Mar 19, In Guinea a bridge collapsed under the weight of a lorry overloaded with passengers and goods leaving 65 people dead.
    (Reuters, 3/20/07, p.A1)

2007        Mar 28, Guinean leaders agreed on the formation of a new government in a bid to end months of unrest and political crisis.
    (AFP, 3/28/07)

2007        Mar 30, In Guinea a motorized wooden boat crowded with passengers and merchandise capsized offshore from Conakry, drowning at least 46 people and possibly dozens more.
    (AP, 3/30/07)

2007        May 4, In Guinea soldiers protesting the government's failure to give them promised pay raises beat a shopkeeper to death as they looted his store and fired shots in the air, wounding at least 25 civilians.
    (AP, 5/4/07)

2007        May 11, In Guinea soldiers demanding pay raises spread their revolt from Conakry, seizing control of many provincial towns, going on looting sprees and killing at least two people in the second day of an uprising in the West African nation.
    (AP, 5/11/07)

2007        May 12, Guinean President Lansana Conte agreed to replace his unpopular defense minister, a key demand of soldiers leading a three-day-old military revolt.
    (AP, 5/13/07)

2007        Jun 2, The Comoros and Guinea joined the Community of Sahel-Saharan States (CEN-SAD) at a summit of the nine-year-old African grouping in Libya, raising its membership to 25 countries.
    (AP, 6/2/07)

2007        Jun 15, Human Rights Watch reported that tens of thousands of elementary school-age girls work in Guinea for no pay as household servants in conditions akin to slavery.
    (AP, 6/15/07)

2008        Jan 4, Young men stormed the streets of Guinea, hurling rocks and setting tires ablaze as labor unions called for a strike, threatening to throw the African nation into gridlock.
    (AP, 1/5/08)

2008        May 3, In Guinea prison authorities said more than 30 prisoners escaped from a jail by using spoons to scoop a hole in the baked earth wall of their prison building which had been softened by rain.
    (Reuters, 5/3/08)

2008        May 20, Guinea’s Pres. Conte unexpectedly fired PM Kouyate. Junior troops disgruntled over back pay and demanding that Guinea's top generals resign began firing into the air at several military bases on the outskirts of the capital, Conakry. They took the army's second-in-command hostage.
    (AP, 9/29/09)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lansana_Kouyat%C3%A9)

2008        May 27, Guinea's new PM Ahmed Tidiane Souare announced a deal to pay mutinous soldiers years of salary arrears, effectively ending the West African nation's latest crisis.
    (AP, 5/28/08)

2008        Jun 16, Police in Guinea went on strike, firing gunshots repeatedly into the air and blocking the country's main port. The work stoppage was launched in response to low wages and unpaid bonuses going back years.
    (AP, 6/16/08)

2008        Jun 25, The International Crisis Group think tank said Guinea's "main problem is president Lansana Conte," regarding the situation in the West African nation shaken by army and police protests.
    (AFP, 6/25/08)

2008        Aug 1, Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto said it received correspondence from Guinea President Lansana Conte "purporting to rescind the Simandou Mining Concession."
    (AFP, 8/3/08)

2008        Nov 26, Off Sierra Leone pirates from neighboring Guinea attacked a Chinese fishing vessel in a rare attack that ended with four suspects dead. Two pirates were shot, two drowned and the other pirates were arrested by the Sierra Leone navy.
    (AP, 11/27/08)

2008        Dec 22, In Guinea longtime dictator Lansana Conte died. His death was made public the next day as a military-led group seized control of the airwaves.
    (AP, 12/23/08)

2008        Dec 23,  In Guinea a military-led group seized control of the airwaves and declared a coup after the death of the mineral-rich West African country's longtime dictator, but PM Ahmed Tidiane Souare insisted he remained in charge.
    (AP, 12/23/08)

2008        Dec 24, in Guinea military officers, who have staged a coup, said they were installing Captain Moussa Dadis Camara as president, but promised to hold elections in two years.
    (Reuters, 12/24/08)

2008        Dec 25, In Guinea coup leader Capt. Moussa Camara solidified his grip as PM Ahmed Tidiane Souare and other government leaders surrendered and stepped down.
    (SFC, 12/26/08, p.A21)

2008        Dec 27, Guinea's coup leader said he would allow the opposition and union leaders to help choose a prime minister. The military junta was boosted by the endorsement of neighboring Senegal as it attempted to garner international backing, and, after meeting political parties, promised to stamp out the burgeoning drugs trade.
    (AP, 12/27/08)(Reuters, 12/27/08)

2008        Dec 28, Coup leaders demoted Guinea's many military generals, setting up a possible struggle with battalions no longer under central command.
    (AP, 12/29/08)

2008        Dec 29, The African Union suspended Guinea after a military coup in the west African nation.
    (AFP, 12/29/08)

2008        Dec 30, Coup leaders in Guinea named Kabine Komara, a civilian banker, as prime minister, making good on a key promise a week after seizing power upon the death of the country's dictator.
    (AP, 12/30/08)

2008        Guinea’s new military junta fueled inflation by printing extra money. Military strongman Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara ordered the central bank to send a truck full of cash each week to the barracks from which he ran the country before he went into exile after surviving an assassination attempt.
    (AP, 3/7/11)

2009        Jan 10, In Nigeria leaders of ECOWAS, West Africa's regional economic body, suspended Guinea's membership following a military coup in the country.
    (AP, 1/11/09)

2009        Jan 23, Officials said Liberia's worst caterpillar plague in three decades has spread to neighboring Guinea after swarms of the crop-eating insects devastated more than 45 towns.
    (AP, 1/23/09)

2009        Jan 29, The African Union said the exclusion from its summit of Mauritania and Guinea, which both suffered coups recently, proved the continent had moved on from its checkered past. The summit was scheduled for Feb 1-3 in Ethiopia.
    (Reuters, 1/29/09)

2009        Feb 24, In Guinea Ousmane Conte, the son of Guinea's late longtime dictator, was arrested on allegations of drug trafficking.
    (AP, 2/24/09)

2009        Mar 18, Amnesty international said authorities in Gambia have rounded up about 1,000 people and forced them to drink hallucinogens in a witch-hunting campaign. Authorities began inviting "witch doctors," who combat witches, to come from nearby Guinea soon after the death earlier this year of President Yahya Jammeh’s aunt.
    (AP, 3/18/09)

2009        Mar, In Guinea confessions regarding drug dealing and corruption began on state television. The broadcasts became known as "The Dadis Show," after Capt. Moussa Dadis Camara, the junior army officer who grabbed power in a coup and promised to crack down on corruption, including on the flagrant drug trade.
    (AP, 3/15/09)

2009        Apr 27, An international human rights group said elite soldiers in junta-ruled Guinea are taking advantage of an anti-corruption drive to rob, extort and beat intimidated civilians in the West African nation with impunity.
    (AP, 4/27/09)

2009        May 5, Guinea's ruling junta recalled 30 ambassadors, nearly five months after seizing power when the West African country's longtime dictator died.
    (AP, 5/6/09)

2009        Sep 2, Authorities in Guinea banned live political chat shows, the latest sign of political unease after violent demonstrations and accusations of phone censorship deepened a row over delayed elections. The military junta that has run the world's top bauxite producer since a December 2008 coup is facing mounting opposition and criticism after it delayed until 2010 elections which the military leader has not ruled out standing in.
    (Reuters, 9/3/09)

2009        Sep 18, The African Union announced it would impose sanctions on Guinea's junta leader, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, over his intention to run in upcoming presidential polls.
    (AFP, 9/18/09)

2009        Sep 28, Guinea’s military's presidential guard shot at pro-democracy demonstrators in Conakry, leaving at least 157 people dead. The government put the death toll at 57. Eyewitnesses said security forces had stripped female protesters and raped them in the streets. Other eyewitnesses said soldiers had stabbed protesters with knives and bayonets.
    (AP, 9/29/09)(AP, 10/2/09)

2009        Sep 30, Guinea's military leader, Capt. Moussa "Dadis" Camara, banned all gatherings and demonstrations and called for two days of mourning after troops opened fire on 50,000 pro-democracy protesters at a stadium rally on Sep 28.
    (AP, 9/30/09)

2009        Oct 13, Guinea's military government said it has signed a $7 billion mining agreement with a Chinese company. Guinea is the world's largest producer of bauxite, the raw material used to make aluminum, and also produces diamonds and gold.
    (AP, 10/13/09)

2009        Oct 16, In Guinea 2 cabinet ministers resigned and France urged its citizens to leave the former French colony as armed attacks increased in the aftermath of a bloody rally last month where soldiers fired on pro-democracy demonstrators.
    (AP, 10/16/09)

2009        Oct 17, The West Africa regional bloc ECOWAS imposed an arms embargo against Guinea, accusing the ruling military junta for "mass human rights violations" during anti-government protests last month.
    (AP, 10/17/09)

2009        Oct 27, US-based Human Rights Watch said the Sept. 28 massacre by Guinean troops of at least 150 people and the rapes of dozens of women at a pro-democracy rally in Guinea were premeditated, and that rapes of kidnapped women continued for days.
    (AP, 10/27/09)

2009        Oct 28, In Guinea tens of thousands of workers went on strike to mark the one-month anniversary of a massacre in which troops fatally shot pro-democracy demonstrators and raped women in broad daylight. 10 people who announced they were taking part in a hunger strike were arrested. The next day they were taken to a restaurant where they were forced to eat under threat of death. The 10 hunger strikers were released on Oct 30, after being detained inside a shipping crate with breathing holes.
    (AP, 10/28/09)(AP, 10/30/09)

2009        Oct 29, African leaders imposed a new barrage of sanctions Guinea's military rulers, increasingly under fire in the wake of last month's massacre of scores of opposition supporters.
    (AFP, 10/29/09)

2009        Oct 29, African leaders imposed a new barrage of sanctions Guinea's military rulers, increasingly under fire in the wake of last month's massacre of scores of opposition supporters.
    (AFP, 10/29/09)

2009        Nov 7, African Union Peace and Security Commissioner Ramtane Lamamra said the AU has implemented sanctions on Guinea's military rulers.
    (AFP, 11/7/09)

2009        Dec 3, Guinea’s President Moussa "Dadis" Camara (45) was shot by Abubakar "Toumba" Diakite, who commands the presidential guard. He was flown to Morocco for medical treatment following the assassination attempt nearly a year after he seized power in a coup. Toumba is accused of having led the presidential guard that opened fire Sep 28 on the peaceful demonstrators, who had gathered inside the capital's national stadium.
    (AP, 12/4/09)

2009        Dec 13, In Burkina Faso diplomats from the US, the African Union and the EU, met to discuss a plan to return Guinea to civilian rule. West Africa's regional economic body called for troops to be sent to Guinea to prevent violence in the wake of an assassination attempt against the military leader earlier this month and a bloody massacre in September.
    (AP, 12/13/09)

2009        Dec 16, Lieutenant Aboubacar "Toumba" Diakite, a former aide to Guinean junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara confessed in an aired radio interview to shooting the Camara out of fear that he would be held to blame for the bloody quashing of a pro-democracy rally.
    (Reuters, 12/16/09)

2009        Dec 23, The White House said President Obama has removed Madagascar, Guinea and Niger from a list of African countries receiving trade benefits, but reinstated Mauritania. The US froze most aid to Niger and imposed travel bans on some officials in response to President Mamadou Tandja's moves to extend his rule over the impoverished West African nation.
    (AFP, 12/23/09)(Reuters, 12/23/09)

2010        Jan 8, Officials said Guinea's No. 2 leader, Gen. Sekouba Konate, is going to Senegal for medical treatment for cirrhosis of the liver, heightening fears of a power vacuum since the country's president is already hospitalized in Morocco following an assassination attempt. Guinea's Health Minister denied reports that the nation's No. 2 leader was heading to Senegal to be hospitalized, rejecting rumors he was being evacuated for a medical emergency.
    (AP, 1/8/10)

2010        Jan 12, Guinea's wounded junta leader, Capt. Moussa "Dadis" Camara, arrived in Burkina Faso from Morocco to recuperate after last month's assassination attempt. One of his top opponents said the surprise move could help him avoid prosecution.
    (AP, 1/13/10)

2010        Jan 15, Guinean military rulers decided to keep wounded junta chief Captain Moussa Dadis Camara convalescing abroad, leaving his deputy and an opposition leader to restore civilian rule.
    (Reuters, 1/16/10)

2010        Jan 17, In Burkina Faso Capt. Moussa "Dadis" Camara, Guinea's exiled leader, appealed for tolerance and reconciliation after he agreed to resign and remain in exile following a tumultuous one-year rule that culminated in a December assassination attempt.
    (AP, 1/17/10)

2010        Jan 19, A Guinean government spokesman said leaders have appointed Jean-Marie Dore, an opposition veteran, as prime minister, a key step to prepare the West African nation to transition from military rule to democratic elections later this year.
    (AP, 1/19/10)

2010        Jan 26, In Guinea Jean Marie Dore, one of the fiercest critics of Guinea's military junta, became prime minister. The crucial step toward democracy came amid worries the country's wounded coup leader is trying to influence the political process from exile.
    (AP, 1/26/10)

2010        Feb 16, In Guinea a decree said that Cmdr. Claude Pivi will stay on as minister in charge of presidential security. Pivi is considered a rogue commander who is accused of torturing civilians, including a group of students he arrested outside a nightclub after discovering the side mirror on his SUV was missing. Lt. Col. Moussa Tiegboro was appointed to a special ministerial post within Gen. Sekouba Konate's office. Tiegboro has been named in a UN investigation as one of the principle actors behind a Sept. 28 massacre of at least 157 unarmed civilians.
    (AP, 2/17/10)

2010        Feb 26, Sierra Leone and five other west African countries (Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Guinea) signed onto an action plan in Freetown for sustainable mangrove management.
    (AFP, 2/27/10)

2010        May 18, An Israeli Defense Ministry spokesman said Israel has fined Global CST, a local security consulting firm, for negotiating a deal last year to provide arms and military training to Guinea's military junta without the state's prior approval. Global CST said it was not fined, but was instead ordered to spend the money to tighten its oversight procedures to avoid similar "errors" in the future.
    (AP, 5/18/10)

2010        Jun 27, Junta-ruled Guinea held its first free election since independence more than half a century ago, a historic vote laden with hope the bedraggled West African nation will finally end decades of harsh military rule and launch a new democratic era.
    (AP, 6/27/10)

2010        Jun 30, In Guinea a group of candidates running in what many hoped would be the country's first free election since independence denounced what they called widespread fraud in the poll.
    (AP, 6/30/10)

2010        Jul 20, Guinea's top court announced final results from last month's presidential election and confirmed that the top two finishers will face each other in a runoff. Former PM Cellou Dalein Diallo garnered nearly 44 percent of the vote, short of the simple majority needed to avoid a second round. Longtime opposition politician Alpha Conde won just about 18 percent, while another ex-premier, Sidya Toure came in third place with close to 13 percent of the vote.
    (AP, 7/20/10)

2010        Jul 23, The African Union said its forces battling Al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Mogadishu will be boosted by a battalion from Guinea and could further swell to reach 10,000 troops.
    (AFP, 7/23/10)

2010        Sep 9, In Guinea 2 senior voting officials were charged with vote tampering and sentenced to one year in prison a week before a crucial presidential vote. Not even their lawyers were informed of the court proceeding.
    (AP, 9/10/10)

2010        Sep 11, In Guinea at least 24 people were injured when members of rival political parties began throwing rocks at each other following a campaign event.
    (AP, 9/11/10)

2010        Sep 12, In Conakry, Guinea, one person was killed and dozens were wounded in clashes between supporters of rival candidates just days before the country's historic presidential runoff vote.
    (Reuters, 9/12/10)

2010        Sep 16, The head of communication for Guinea's National Independent Electoral Commission says The Sep 19 presidential runoff will be postponed by at least two weeks.
    (AP, 9/16/10)

2010        Oct 19, In Guinea 2 political demonstrators were killed by police in the capital, in one of several violent street clashes ahead of a planned presidential poll.
    (AP, 10/19/10)

2010        Oct 22, Guinea announced an indefinite delay of a presidential election run-off two days before it was to be held, casting doubt on the West African state's hopes for civilian rule and provoking fresh protests.
    (Reuters, 10/22/10)

2010        Oct 28, Guinea officials said thousands of people from the Peul ethnic group have been forced to flee their homes in ethnic clashes ahead of the country's upcoming presidential election, overshadowing a looming poll in a country that has never succeeded in freely electing its leader.
    (AP, 10/29/10)

2010        Nov 7, Guineans cast ballots in a vote that has been delayed multiple times following violent ethnic clashes that pitted the nation's two largest ethnic groups against each other, a vote that progressed calmly into the afternoon despite its underlying tensions. A week later Alpha Conde, a member of the Malinke ethnic group, was named the winner over Cellou Dalein Diallo, a member of the Peul ethnic group.
    (AP, 11/7/10)(AP, 11/16/10)

2010        Nov 15, Guinea’s National Independent Electoral Commission declared Alpha Conde the winner with 52.5% of the nearly 2.9 million ballots counted. Security forces arrested demonstrators and fired tear gas at those burning tires in the suburbs of Conakry. Over the next three days, security forces systematically attacked Peul communities, spraying populated areas with bullets. They burst into homes where they beat, slapped, stabbed and burned people.
    (AP, 11/15/10)(Reuters, 11/15/10)(AP, 11/16/10)(AP, 11/30/10)

2010        Nov 17, Guinea's military declared a state of emergency following violence after a tense presidential election. Pan-African rights group RADDHO said 10 people have been killed and 215 others injured in violence since the election results were announced earlier this week.
    (AP, 11/17/10)(Reuters, 11/17/10)

2010        Nov 27, Guinea's government announced border closures with Sierra Leone by land, sea and air this evening stranding hundreds of people from Sierra Leone on Guinea's side.
    (AP, 11/28/10)

2010        Dec 2, Guinea's Supreme Court validated Alpha Conde's victory in a presidential race considered the country's first democratic contest, but which was tainted by the ethnic divide it exposed.
    (AP, 12/3/10)

2010        Dec 6, The African Union appointed Guinea's interim president Sekouba Konate to drive forward plans for an African military force which had been due to be operational by this year.
    (AFP, 12/7/10)

2010        Dec 10, Guinea lifted a state of emergency in a sign of rising stability since elections marred by street violence. The African Union confirmed that it has lifted sanctions against Guinea following the country's presidential election.
    (AP, 12/10/10)(Reuters, 12/11/10)

2010        Dec 21, Alpha Conde heralded a new era for Guinea after being sworn as the nation's first freely elected president in front of visiting heads of state and jubilant supporters.
    (AFP, 12/21/10)

2010        Dec 24, Guinea's President Alpha Conde named Mohamed Said Fofana, a former director of economic research, as the nation's new prime minister.
    (AP, 12/25/10)

2010        Guinea’s population was about 10 million.
    (AP, 12/1/10)

2011        Apr 22, Anglo-Australian miner Rio Tinto settled a long-running dispute over Guinea's huge Simandou iron ore field, with the West African nation agreeing to take a stake of up to 35 percent.
    (AP, 4/24/11)

2011        May 6, A Guinean government minister said at least 25 people have been killed and a mosque has been destroyed in fighting that took place earlier this week in Galapaye.
    (AP, 5/6/11)

2011        Jun 29, The leaders of Congo and Guinea agreed to boost the current "low level" of bilateral exchange, in a statement marking a visit by President Alpha Conde to Brazzaville. The leaders agreed to hold a second session in 2012 of a joint commission that last met in 1978, in a bid to "revive" ties.
    (AFP, 6/30/11)

2011        Jul 2, In Guinea the family of Colonel Moussa Keita, a high-ranking member of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's military junta, said Keita has been arrested by the army. In recent weeks Keita made statements to local media accusing General Sekouba Konate, head of a transition government put in place after Camara was shot by a close aide, of embezzling $20 million (14 million euro).
    (AFP, 7/2/11)

2011        Jul 19, Guinea's democratically elected Pres. Alpha Conde survived an assassination attempt when gunmen descended on his home. At least one member of his security detail was killed, several more were wounded and portions of his house were destroyed by a rocket. Guinean security forces arrested 37 soldiers in the wake of the attack.
    (AP, 7/19/11)(AFP, 7/20/11)

2011        Jul 25, Guinea’s national communications council banned media from reporting on "the attack against the head of state, as well as any interactive broadcast of a political nature." The media ban was lifted on July 28.
    (AFP, 7/27/11)(AFP, 7/29/11)

2011        Aug 1, In Guinea 16 people, including 10 soldiers, were charged with attempted assassination for an attack on Pres. Alpha Conde's home two weeks ago. Witness Jean Kolie said 60 people were wounded in a clash that erupted last week when residents in southern Guinea refused to let the government expropriate their land for oil and rubber production.
    (AFP, 8/2/11)(AP, 8/3/11)

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