| GUINEA: Timeline since independence |
 DAKAR, 20 November 2009 (IRIN) - Guineans and the international community are watching mediation efforts of Blaise Compaoré, as international investigators begin to probe the 28 September deadly military attack on civilians in the capital Conakry. The latest violence stunned even a nation with a long history of military repression of civilians – an era Guineans had hoped would pass with the death of 24-year leader Lansana Conté and arrival of Moussa Dadis Camara in December 2008. Here is a timeline of some events since independence from France in 1958.
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| GUINEA: Uncertainty over toxic chemicals in Conakry |
 DAKAR, 17 November 2009 (IRIN) - The recent upheaval in Guinea has delayed the disposal of toxic chemicals discovered earlier this year at several sites throughout the capital Conakry, according to UN experts.
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| GUINEA: Madame Diallo, "The children ask about him" |
 CONAKRY, 16 November 2009 (IRIN) - The Diallo family in the Guinean capital, Conakry, has found no trace of Thierno Abdoulaye Diallo, 20, a student, since he set off on 28 September for a football stadium in the city.
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| GUINEA: Humanitarian update |
 DAKAR, 12 November 2009 (IRIN) - Six weeks after the deadly military crackdown on civilians in Guinea, families are still searching for loved ones, the wounded continue to need medical care and aid agencies are assisting state health workers cope with the aftermath, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Guinea.
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| In Brief: World hunger increases despite growth in food production |
 DUSHANBE, 12 November 2009 (IRIN) - Even as world food production grows, hunger is on the rise in many poor countries, according to the Global Crop Prospects and Food Situation report for November, published by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on 12 November.
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| In Brief: Cash does not always mean quality food aid |
 JOHANNESBURG, 11 November 2009 (IRIN) - A move by donor countries to provide aid agencies with cash, allowing them the flexibility to source cheaper or more appropriate food in the region or beneficiary country and save on transport and warehousing costs, is not addressing nutritional needs, according to a new report.
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| GUINEA: Political crisis only sharpens daily hardship |
 DAKAR, 6 November 2009 (IRIN) - Even when Guinea is not facing political crisis and reeling from a massacre, daily life is gruelling for many and instability is never far away. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in a September 2009 report says Guinea is “volatile” due to a combination of sharp economic decline; widespread and chronic poverty; limited access to basic services like health, water and sanitation; and persistent political instability.
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| GUINEA: Caravans and kola nuts - keeping a lid on communal tensions |
 DAKAR, 30 October 2009 (IRIN) - Local civil society activists say Guinea's latest political crisis has taken on an ethnic dimension in N’zérékoré - junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara’s home region - which has an ethnically mixed population and has experienced communal clashes before.
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| GUINEA: Youths on hunger strike for "dialogue", "justice" |
 DAKAR, 28 October 2009 (IRIN) - Youths in the Guinea capital Conakry went on hunger strike on 28 October - one month after the deadly military attack on civilians - to call for political dialogue, an end to violence and the arrest of those who attacked demonstrators.
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| GUINEA: Food prices climb amid unrest |
CONAKRY, 27 October 2009 (IRIN) - Prices of rice, sugar, oil and other basic foods have risen sharply in the Guinea capital Conakry in the tense weeks following a deadly military crackdown on civilians.
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