Guinea

2010
Alpha Conde became the President of Guinea on December 21 after a second round of presidential elections, becoming the first freely elected president in the country's history.

2011
The presidential residence was shelled in an assassination attempt on July 19, killing a presidential guard and injuring two others as Alpha Conde escaped alive. 38 soldiers were arrested on July 22 for the assassination attempt, having ties to the previous military rulers.

2014
A mob killed a team of eight health officials and journalists on September 18 who went to a remote village in Guinea to raise awareness about the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, believing they had come to spread the illness; the epidemic had already killed 2,600 people in Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone.