Vol 47 No 12 | GUINEA At the sick bed 9th June 2006 Fodé Bangoura is preparing for the presidency. In April, he helped the ailing President Lansana Conté to oust Premier Cellou Dallein Diallo and eleven other ministers. Then on...
Vol 47 No 10 | GUINEA Who's in charge here? 12th May 2006 A sick president, a one-day government, a broken economy. What next? Nobody seems to be in charge of Guinea. The authority of the state and the economy of the world's second largest bauxite producer (after Australia) have steadily dwindled...
Vol 46 No 11 | GUINEA Vultures gather 27th May 2005 Military officers and regional warlords jockey for power as the President's condition worsens The vultures are gathering as President Lansana Conté is reported to be slipping in and out of a diabetic coma. A mass prison breakout in Conakry on 15...
Vol 46 No 11 | GUINEA Through a glass very darkly 27th May 2005 Closely watching the succession in Conakry are West African presidents, warlords and diplomats. Their central calculation is that what's good for Liberia's exiled warlord Charles Taylor will be...
Vol 46 No 3 | GUINEA Whodunit? 4th February 2005 The government blames the opposition for firing on the President's convoy: Guineans are sceptical Guinea's President Lansana Conté regularly claims to be the target of plots. This time, he was actually shot at. The regime has found a convenient opposition figure to...
Vol 45 No 23 | GUINEASOUTH AFRICA Honoured dictator 19th November 2004 There has been neither visible mention of nor comment on President Thabo Mbeki's recent posthumous decoration of the late President Ahmed Sekou Touré of Guinea.
Vol 45 No 16 | GUINEA Price of peace 6th August 2004 The government promised at talks in Brussels in mid-July to open a dialogue with the opposition and to improve its management of state finances. In a first gesture...
Vol 45 No 9 | GUINEA Plot news 30th April 2004 Plot accusations are common in Guinea. Yet the latest charges of plotting, levelled against former Prime Minister Sidya Touré and the deputy army Chief of Staff, Colonel Mamadou...
Vol 44 No 25 | GUINEA No change there, then 19th December 2003 Ill and politically incoherent, President Conté keeps going by eliminating all opposition With a presidential election looming on 21 December, Guinea's military high command has banned soldiers from carrying arms in the Samory Touré barracks where President Lansana Conté...
Vol 44 No 7 | GUINEA Up for grabs 4th April 2003 As President Lansana Conté lies dying, the international community courts Guinea Gravely ill with complications from diabetes, President Lansana Conté has withdrawn to his home village of Moussayah, leaving the army and the divided opposition holding their breath...