Guinea
Delayed Ebola vaccination drive to begin in Guinea
The outbreak, declared last weekend, is the first in the region since a 2013-16 epidemic left more than 11,300 people dead, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra...
The cases marked the first known resurgence of Ebola in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic that began in Guinea and killed more than 11,300 people across the region.
Defence Minister Mohamed Diane, a scientist by training, was the first in the country to get a jab of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine on December 30.
The National Agency for Health Safety said it had obtained 60 doses of the vaccine, which would be administered to middle-aged volunteers on a trial basis.
The 143 kilograms of gold was en route to neighbouring Guinea.
The 82-year-old's bid for a third term had been condemned by the opposition as an abuse of power, and dozens died in clashes.
The Constitutional Court on Saturday declared Alpha Conde winner of a controversial third term as president while Cellou Dalein Diallo called for resistance 'by all legal means'.
At 59.5%, Conde's support was above the absolute majority needed to win in the first round, judges found, throwing out challenges to the October 18 ballot from figures including his main opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo.
One of the losing candidates, Makale Traore, pointed to "serious irregularities recorded before, during and after the vote," including "substitutions and falsifications" of the results.
Cellou Dalein Diallo said that barricades around the headquarters of his party, the UFDG, and around his offices, remained in place.
Police barricaded Cellou Dalein Diallo inside his home in the capital Conakry last week, after he self-proclaimed victory in 18 October poll, triggering clashes which killed 21 people nationwide.
In a broadcast statement, the president of the electoral authority Kabinet Cisse read out results from 16 constituencies, out of 38, in the West African nation.
The unrest follows a high-stakes presidential election on Sunday, in which President Alpha Conde ran for a third term in a controversial bid that had already sparked mass protests in the West African country.
The announcement was a blow to Guinea's leading opposition figure Cellou Dalein Diallo, who declared victory Monday against incumbent Alpha Conde after suggesting the poll was rigged.
Diallo, 68, made the announcement without waiting for Guinea's electoral authority to publish the official tally from Sunday's race.
Guineans voted Sunday in a poll in which incumbent President Alpha Conde is seeking a third term, following months of protests against the move during which security forces killed dozens of people.
The election caps a tense political campaign marked by insults traded between President Alpha Conde and his leading rival Cellou Dalein Diallo.
Millions more will vote across the region - in Ghana, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso and Nigeria - before the year is out, under the wary eye of defenders of democracy.
Addressing cheering supporters in the capital Conakry, Alpha Conde suggested that warnings of violence in the poor nation amounted to opposition provocations.