The three front-runners – the Union des Forces Démocratiques de Guinée’s Cellou Dalein Diallo the Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée’s Alpha Condé and the Union des Forces Républicaines’ Sidya Touré – have pledged to review all the mining contracts negotiated under Guinea’s succession of military juntas...
The capable Sidya Touré is ruled out because he is from the minority Diakhanké people...
By far the best qualified is ex-Premier Sidya Touré but his Diakhanke people form less than 2% of the population...
Assaulted oppositionists included ex-Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo (Union des Forces Républicaines de Guinée) Sidya Touré (Union de Forces Républicaines) François Lonseny Fall (Front Uni pour le Développement et le Changement) and ex-Information Minister Aboubacar Sylla (Union des Forces du Changement)...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 7 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
Former Prime Minister and now oppositionist Sidya Touré dismissed the barter deal as a delusion...
His rival for Conté's job is former Premier Sidya Touré of the Union des Forces Républicaines...
With support from opposition parties such as Sidya Touré's UFR Mamadou Bâ's Union des Forces Démocratiques de Guinée (UFDG) and the more cautious Alpha Condé's RPG in all the big towns the strike rapidly began to look like an uprising...
Opposition leaders such as Sidya Touré of the Union des Forces Républicaines (UFR) and Alpha Condé of the Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée (RPG) went overseas after repeated detention and harassment...
In a first gesture of goodwill it has dropped charges against former Prime Minister Sidya Touré accused of plotting a coup with other members of his Union des Forces Républicaines (AC Vol 45 No 9)...
Yet the latest charges of plotting levelled against former Prime Minister Sidya Touré and the deputy army Chief of Staff Colonel Mamadou Camara suggest Touré's Union des Forces Républicaines is becoming a force to be reckoned with...
Earlier in the year the popular former Prime Minister Sidya Touré who is leader of the Union des Forces Républicaines (UFR) was detained for questioning over student riots after a rally held by Touré at Gbessia on the outskirts of the capital several kilometres from the university...