CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea President Alpha Conde was sworn into office Tuesday for a third term after a violently contested election.

Conde said he would “govern differently,” promising...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinean singer Mory Kante, an influential figure in African and world music, has died, his family said Friday. He was 70.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — One young protester in Guinea was shot dead and many others arrested Monday in the suburbs of the capital, Conakry, amid demonstrations against the president’s bid to seek...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Two players and a driver are dead after a top-flight Guinea soccer club's team bus crashed into a stationary truck late at night on the journey back from a game.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — At least nine people have been killed in three days of protests in Guinea against the president's bid to extend his time in power, while hospitals are overwhelmed with...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — At least four people have been killed in Guinea's capital after police fired tear gas and bullets Monday to disperse thousands of opposition supporters, civil society groups...

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Somalia's government announced it is cutting diplomatic ties with Guinea, accusing the West African country of violating its sovereignty.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — There were a few things Virginia forward Mamadi Diakite had to do to have a shot in the world of basketball.

He had to listen to his dad. He had to stop kicking a ball...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The Guinean soccer federation says the country will host the 2025 African Cup of Nations instead of the originally awarded 2023 edition.

The move helps clear a logjam of hosts — and likely appeals at the Court of Arbitration for Sport — in fallout from Cameroon being stripped of the 2019 tournament by the Confederation of African Football six weeks ago.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Two young men were fatally shot amid continuing political unrest following the disputed results of this West African country's first municipal elections in 13 years, authorities said Thursday.

The two were killed at a demonstration in the capital city of Conakry on Wednesday night, according to police and opposition officials. Protesters have called on the government to release what they consider to be the true results of the poll.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea's transport ministry says four people are dead after a small plane crashed after takeoff from the capital, Conakry.

Transport Minister Aboubacar Sylla says among the dead in Sunday's crash are pilots from Germany and Cape Verde and technicians from Poland and Guinea. He says the bodies are being transferred to a morgue in the capital.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Authorities in Guinea announced the first death from Lassa fever in more than two decades Thursday, heightening anxiety about another hemorrhagic fever in the West African country where an Ebola epidemic first emerged.

The Ebola outbreak in late 2013 went on to kill more than 11,000 people in part because local authorities and the international community were slow to act when cases first popped up in a rural part of the deeply impoverished nation.

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — A Guinea man killed in this week's shooting at a mosque in Canada was working to bring a steady supply of drinking water to his home village at the time of his death, relatives said Wednesday.

Mamadou Tanou Barry, 42, grew up outside Labe, Guinea's second-largest city located hundreds of miles inland from the capital, Conakry. He studied in London before moving to Canada five years ago to work as an accountant, said an uncle, Alpha Barry.