Sources: BBC
Guineans vote on whether to replace their constitution, established in 2020, with a new one. 2025-09-21
Mexico’s immigration agency detains two buses carrying 102 migrants in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca. The majority of the migrants came from the West African nations of Senegal and Guinea, as well as six from Djibouti, two from Congo and one from Mauritania. 2023-12-12
Guinea reports West Africa's first death from the Marburg virus after a person died from viral hemorrhagic fever. 2021-08-9
Guinea's health ministry reports the country's first deaths from the Ebola virus disease since the 2013–2016 epidemic. 2021-02-13
Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is sentenced by a Geneva court to five years in prison for corruption in obtaining mining rights to an iron ore deposit in Guinea, and is ordered to pay a fine of CHF 50 million (US$56 million) to the canton of Geneva. 2021-01-22
Gunmen attack a military base in Kindia, Guinea, about 85 km outside of the capital Conakry, killing the camp's commander, according to a statement released by the defence ministry. A prison in the city is also attacked, wounding an official and allowing several inmates to escape. The attacks come two days before the general elections. 2020-10-16
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
50 people are killed and 27 injured in eastern Guinea after a lorry they were travelling in crashed. 2012-03-3
Up to 80 people, including soldiers, are arrested in Guinea after a failed assassination attempt on President Alpha Condé on 19 July. 2011-07-20
The head of Guinea's junta Moussa Dadis Camara and interim leader General Sékouba Konaté hold emergency talks with Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré. 2010-01-14