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A Guinea junta spokesman for leader Mamady Doumbouya says that Doumbouya shrugged off threats of economic sanctions by ECOWAS when confronted with them, saying that "as soldiers, their work is in Guinea and there is nothing to freeze in their accounts." Talks are also ongoing to allow ousted president Alpha Condé to leave Guinea, a petition to which the junta has refused permission.
2021-09-18

Ivory Coast begins to vaccinate "healthcare workers, close relatives and contacts of the victim" against Ebola using 5,000 doses of Ebola vaccines donated by Guinea after the first case of the virus since 1994 was reported over the weekend.
2021-08-16

Ivory Coast reports its first case of the Ebola hemorrhagic virus since 1994 in an isolated case of an 18-year-old girl who travelled from Guinea and is currently hospitalized in Abidjan.
2021-08-14

Guinea begins a vaccination campaign against Ebola for high-risk people in Gouecke, Nzérékoré Prefecture, as an emergency measure to reduce the spread of the virus that was detected for the first time since 2016.
2021-02-23

The World Health Organization asks six African countries (Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, and Liberia) to be on the alert for possible Ebola outbreaks after Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo reported new cases that signaled a resurgence of the outbreak.
2021-02-16

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

For the first time since March 2014, Guinea is declared free from Ebola virus transmissions by the World Health Organization.
2015-12-29

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

A presidential run-off election in Guinea is postponed due to lack of preparation.
2010-09-15

Guinea holds the first democratic election in the nation's history.
2010-06-27