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Guinea

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Date of Birth: 9 January 1922
Place of Birth: Faranah, Guinea
Died: 26 March 1984


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Condé shrugs off poll doubts

Some see it as a return to the days of Guinea's first President Ahmed Sékou Touré who ruled a one-party state increasingly despotically from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984 and gave his name to the presidential palace the Sékoutouréyah...


Condé goes it alone

6% in favour of the new constitution a victory margin that resembles those obtained by Condé's predecessors: Ahmed Sékou Touré who ran Guinea with an iron first from 1958-84 and condemned Condé to death in absentia in 1970 for being part of the opposition and Lansana Conté who had him jailed and tortured for the same reason (AC Vol 49 No 3 One Conakry two Lansanas)...


Over the new rainbow

A colourful business acquaintance Gambian-based Mamadou Sylla is also a liability as is Mohamed Touré grandson and chief apologist of founding President Ahmed Sékou Touré...


Condé’s hard won victory

When it became clear that Ahmed Sékou Touré was turning Guinea into a police state and family business Condé campaigned against him earning a death sentence in absentia in 1970...


High-stakes election

That would mean restoring the Foutah a policy imposed by the founding President Ahmed Sékou Touré a Malinké to keep Peuhl systematically out of senior positions...


Votes and the mining houses

He is now 73 and will have competed against three presidents: Ahmed Sékou Touré Conté and Dadis Camara...


Who's who in the junta and beyond

He worked at the United Nations International Labour Organisation in the reign of the late President Ahmed Sékou Touré and was in the opposition under President Lansana Conté...


Once more the President's man

He reminded some of the old dictator Ahmed Sékou Touré; his wife did not help by erecting a gigantic elephant statue in Conakry’s Belle Vue district...


Annivesaries and elections

Politics are febrile the economy is near chaos and many despairingly predict a new take-over by the well cushioned army as was the case after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré in 1984...


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