General Sékouba Konaté

The following two military regimes – initially under the mercurial Captain Moussa Dadis Camara and then under General Sékouba Konaté – upheld that decision but to Steinmetz's frustration never granted him a presidential decree confirming that reallocation of the rights...

Although Condé of the Rassemblement pour le Peuple Guinéen (RPG) has tried to play down fears of a worsening confrontation between his Malinké people (35% of the population) and the Peulh/Fulani (40%) who mainly support Diallo the outgoing military regime under General Sekouba Konaté has declared a state of emergency...

The postponement followed a meeting at the office of Prime Minister Jean-Marie Doré which included the two candidates Cellou Dalein Diallo and Alpha Condé; interim President General Sékouba Konaté; his trusted Secretary General to the Presidency Tibou Camara; the two Vice-Presidents of the Conseil National de Transition the de facto legislature created to oversee the transition; and representatives from the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Political Affairs and the Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI)...

Two politicians enter the second round of the presidential election the most open contest since Guinea won Independence in 1958 – thanks mainly to the apparent lack of political ambition of the incumbent military leader General Sékouba Konaté (AC Vol 51 No 14)...

Paris and Washington agreed in private to warn Guinea’s interim leader Sékouba Konaté that he must introduce democratic reforms after the brutalities of his predecessors...

Political insiders consider Diallo the favourite thanks to commercial ethnic and military factors as well as the blessing of top people in the incumbent junta under General Sékouba Konaté...

Colonel Mathurin Bangoura the minister of transport who sealed the Air Guinée deal with Thiam was promoted to the rank of general with eight other allies of junta leader Sékouba Konaté on 3 July another sign that Thiam has fostered good relations between Konaté and Diallo...

President and General Sékouba Konaté made clear the junta’s position in a letter to Rio on 21 June signed by Minister Secretary General of the Presidency Tibou Camara...

Sékouba Konaté who commands the army and for now the country has promised to obey whomsoever the Commission Electorale Nationale Indépendante (CENI) names as winner...

Some Western diplomats say that deal was steered through by Dadis and Brigadier General Sékouba Konaté (now interim head of the junta) who managed the transfer of large sums from the signature fee into the junta’s coffers...