Guinea police fire warning shots in strike clashes
Police in Guinea fired shots in the air and tear gas on Monday in clashes with protesters who threw stones and burned tyres in the capital on the sixth day of a general strike in the West African country, police said. They said the protests by groups of youths, who also trashed cars and tried to break into a police station to steal firearms, broke out in at least four neighbourhoods of Conakry in defiance of an official ban on public demonstrations. Full Story