Vol 50 No 23 |
- AFRICA
- ARMS
We hear that the Vice-President and Minister of Defence General Sékouba Konaté ('The Tiger') travelled to the Ukrainian capital Kiev on 11 October with Guinea's Consul in Casablanca Morocco Roda Fawaz a Lebanese businessman...
These sanctions include freezing assets held abroad by the junta and its associates and a travel ban on its leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara and General Sékouba Konaté and other soldiers directly implicated in the 28 September massacres...
Sékouba Konaté's men...
Pivi recruited non-Guinean Toma or Konianké troops as a counterweight to the men who follow Sékouba Konaté ('Le Tigre') military sources say...
Colonel Sékouba Konaté as Minister of Defence with the rank of Brigadier General; and Mamadouba Toto Camara as Minister of Security and Civil Protection also promoted to Major General...
Diop's competence is questioned but he is popular with the youth in Conakry and a friend of new Defence Minister Sekouba Konaté as well as of Camara...