One of the two candidates in a run-off vote for the Guinea-Bissau presidency pulls out, claiming the first round was unfair.

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Guinea-Bissau run-off boycotted

Papua New Guinea approves an Australian proposal to reopen a detention centre on Manus Island, as Canberra’s refugee swap deal with Malaysia stalls.

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PNG agrees to reopen asylum camp

Police in Papua New Guinea investigating the discovery of a woman’s body at the home of acting prime minister Sam Abal arrest his adopted son.

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Woman’s body in PNG leader’s home

Findings from a “natural laboratory” in seas off Papua New Guinea suggest that acidifying oceans will severely hit coral reefs by the end of the century.

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Bubbling sea signals coral threat

She escaped her native Guinea under difficult circumstances and made a new life in New York with her 15-year-old daughter. She didn’t have many employment options and was grateful for her job at the plush Sofitel hotel.

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Little revealed about alleged victim

There’s no doubt that the Sofitel hotel maid who accused IMF director Dominique Strauss-Kahn of rape is telling the truth, according to her defense attorney, Jeffrey Shapiro, on Tuesday. He argued on behalf of the immigrant woman from Guinea, who…

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Strauss-Kahn Maid: I’m Not Lying

Police apologise to a Bradford woman after a drugs raid sparked by a hotspot uncovers a heater for her guinea pigs.

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Drug raid finds guinea pig heater

Fossil analysis shows that almost 5 percent of the DNA of people from New Guinea comes from a little-known human group called the Denisovans.

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Siberian Fossils Were Neanderthals’ Eastern Cousins, DNA Reveals

The people of the West African state of Guinea are going to the polls for a presidential run-off election.

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Guinea votes in presidential poll

One of the two rival candidates in Guinea’s much-delayed presidential election run-off pulls out of a “peace tour” of the country with his rival, as pre-vote tensions continue to simmer.

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Guinea hopeful cancels joint tour

The head of Guinea’s electoral commission proposes 31 October as the date to hold the country’s delayed presidential run-off vote.

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Guinea run-off poll date proposed

An expected flood of money in Papua New Guinea could throw a country already beset by corruption into further turmoil.

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Riches May Not Help Papua New Guinea

At least two people are killed and several injured in street clashes in Guinea’s capital Conakry ahead of a presidential run-off.

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‘Deadly clash’ in Guinea capital

The election commission in Guinea proposes 10 October as the revised date for the presidential election run-off.

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New date for Guinea run-off vote

The head of Guinea’s election commission dies, amid speculation that Sunday’s presidential run-off could be postponed.

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Convicted Guinea poll head dies