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Guinean commando forces forcefully remove former president Moussa Dadis Camara and several other officials from a central prison in Conakry amid gunfire. Camara is later taken back into police custody shortly after the alleged kidnapping attempt.
2023-11-4

The military junta led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya announces an indefinite nightly curfew in the country, and says that Guinea's governors will be replaced by regional commanders of the military. The junta also refuses to issue a timeline for the release of deposed President Alpha Condé, saying that the former leader still has "access to medical care and his doctors".
2021-09-6

Guinea reports West Africa's first death from the Marburg virus after a person died from viral hemorrhagic fever.
2021-08-9

Guinea declares a new Ebola epidemic after three people died and four others became ill in the country’s southeast.
2021-02-14

The Guinea electoral commission reports that the President of Guinea Alpha Conde has won the election with 58 per cent of the vote.
2015-10-17

The World Health Organisation estimates that the death toll from the outbreak has passed 4000 with all but nine deaths occurring in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea.
2014-10-10

Eight members of an Ebola awareness team are killed by rioting villagers in a remote area of southeastern Guinea.
2014-09-16

An outbreak of Ebola virus which has killed at least 59 people in Guinea continues its spread, entering Liberia and threatens to spread to Sierra Leone.
2014-03-24

Guinea's presidential run-off is scheduled for 19 September.
2010-08-9

Sékouba Konaté, the interim head of the junta in Guinea, is flown to Senegal after falling ill.
2010-01-8