It was travelling from Douala in neighbouring Cameroon to a French military base in Libreville, Gabon and had stopped in Bata to refuel, he said, denying any intent to harm Equatorial Guinea.“ The authorities in Equatorial Guinea decided to detain the helicopter.... He was given a three-year suspended sentence and a large fine, and a number of properties were confiscated including a Parisian mansion and luxury cars. The Equatorial Guinea government and the president’s son have not commented on

Image source, Getty Images Radio is important in Papua New Guinea, which has scattered, isolated settlements and low levels of literacy.... The private press, including weeklies and monthlies, reports on corruption and other sensitive matters.... The Australian Broadcasting Cooperation( ABC) is the only foreign news organisation to have a permanent base in the capital, Port Moresby. BBC World Service( 106.7) and Radio Australia broadcast on FM in the capital....

Open this photo in gallery Junta leader Col.... Mamady Doumbouya, centre, addresses officials in the Conakry, Guinea, on Sept....

CONAKRY( AFP)-Guinea, where a junta seized power in a coup on Sunday( Sept 5), arresting President Alpha Conde, is an impoverished west African country despite a wealth of natural resources. Authoritarian regimes The former French colony is the only Francophone state on the continent to have rejected in 1958 the Franco-African community proposed by then French President Charles de Gaulle. Instead, the country plumped for independence and installed a socialist regime which Ahmed Sekou Toure would

CONAKRY( Reuters)-The junta that ousted Guinea's President Alpha Conde last week has started a week-long consultation with political, religious, and business leaders that it says will lead to the formation of a transitional government. The dialogue, which began with a meeting with leaders of the main political parties on Tuesday, is expected to lay out the framework of a promised government of national unity that would lead Guinea back to constitutional order. The talks are expected to define th

CONAKRY, Dec.... 21( Xinhua)--The transitional president of Guinea, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, has declared a three-day national mourning across the country, following the deadly fire at a large fuel depot in the capital on Sunday night. During the national mourning period, the Guinean flag will be at half-mast throughout the country and in Guinea's embassies and diplomatic representations abroad, Doumbouya said in an address on public television on Wednesday." In these moments of pain and sadne

CONAKRY( Reuters)-Soldiers who staged an uprising in Guinea's capital on Sunday said in a short broadcast on the West African nation's state television that they have dissolved the constitution and the government in an apparent coup.An unidentified soldier, draped in Guinea's national flag and surrounded by eight other armed soldiers, said they planned to form a transitional government and would give further details later. Heavy gunfire broke out near the presidential palace in the capital Conak

COPENHAGEN( Reuters)-A Danish frigate has killed four pirates in waters south of Nigeria in an operation aimed at ensuring safe shipping in the Gulf of Guinea, the Danish military said on Thursday. The frigate Esbern Snare, deployed last month to the Gulf of Guinea amid heightened security risks from pirates, on Wednesday spotted a vessel it suspected of carrying eight pirates near several commercial ships, Danish Defence said. The incident happened outside Nigeria's territorial waters, a spokes

Open this photo in gallery Members of the Armed Forces of Guinea drive through the central neighbourhood of Kaloum in Conakry on Sept.... Doumbouya – a former French foreign legionnaire – said on state television, draped in Guinea’s national flag and surrounded by eight other armed soldiers.... “ We are going to rewrite a constitution together.” The United States condemned events on Sunday in the Guinean capital Conakry, where special forces soldiers appeared to oust the country’s long-serving

MELBOURNE: The Papua New Guinea government and United States oil major Exxon Mobil Corp plan to resume talks on the P’nyang natural gas project, nearly two years after their negotiations halted, Exxon confirmed yesterday.In November 2019, talks tied to a US$ 13bil( RM54. 98bil) expansion of the country’s liquefied natural gas( LNG) exports fell apart with the government saying Exxon was unwilling to negotiate on the country’s terms. Papua New Guinea has been pressing for better returns for the i