The choice of Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaoré as chief mediator in Guinea's worsening crisis is curious given that the Burkinabé leader in league with Liberian warlord Charles Taylor had been plotting against the previous Guinean regime under Lieutenant General Lansana Conté: many of Conté's senior officers now serve Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's regime...
Those killed had been protesting against military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara's plan to stand for election as president next year...
Camara's Crackdown Army sources say the crackdown was planned a week in advance by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's team...
Many Guineans like Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's tough talk on state television and his increasingly tough actions such as the mass arrests of suspected drug traffickers...
Vol 50 No 4 |
- SIERRA LEONE
As West Africa's political organisations rushed to condemn the coup in Guinea at the end of 2008 (AC Vol 50 No 1) Koroma was among the neighbours who rushed to meet the coup-maker Captain Moussa Dadis Camara keen to secure his own borders through quick compromise rather than risk enmity...
Guinea's new leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara faces formidable difficulties in holding together the junta as rival military factions circle in search of largesse and political influence...
Chief among these is military leader Moussa Dadis Camara's old friend Boubacar Barry an architect as provisional Minister for Construction Public Works and Public Buildings...
Vol 50 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
GUINEA: Camara and company muscle in Junior army officers led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara quickly consolidated their power over Guinea’s crumbling state machinery after the demise of President Lansana Conté on 22 December...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 12 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
On 17 October West African leaders imposed an arms embargo of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's junta for the killing of at least 157 people when government troops fired on a demonstration on 28 September...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 11 |
- ANGOLA
- CHINA
Untitled Document Guinea's military ruler Moussa Dadis Camara set up a commission on 28 August to manage a planned US$1...
Vol 2 (AAC) No 7 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
The junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara's order that all mining licences are subject to immediate revocation if the government does not approve of their development plans has added more confusion to Guinea's troubled mining sector...