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Guinea charges fuel, subsidizes food

Following soaring fuel prices in the international market, the Guinean government has suspended its long-used subsidies on diesel and petrol. The government had used the subsidies to quell tensions over rising cost of living.

The price of a litre of petrol has risen by more than 60 per cent. "The price increase was one of the conditions imposed by the International Monetary Fund,' Mamady Traor