- Vol 46 No 11
- 27th May 2005
Military officers and regional warlords jockey for power as the
President's condition worsens
- Vol 46 No 11
- 27th May 2005
Closely watching the succession in Conakry are West African presidents, warlords and diplomats. Their central calculation is that what's good for Liberia's exiled warlord Charles Taylor will be bad for Guinea. Although they differ on details, recent repor...
- Vol 46 No 3
- 4th February 2005
The government blames the opposition for firing on the President's
convoy: Guineans are sceptical
- Vol 45 No 23
- 19th November 2004
There has been neither visible mention of nor comment on President Thabo Mbeki's recent posthumous decoration of the late President Ahmed Sekou Touré of Guinea.
- Vol 45 No 16
- 6th August 2004
The government promised at talks in Brussels in mid-July to open a dialogue with the opposition and to improve its management of state finances. In a first gesture of goodwill, it has dropped charges against former Prime Minister Sidya Touré, accus...
- Vol 45 No 9
- 30th April 2004
Plot accusations are common in Guinea. 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 i...
- Vol 44 No 25
- 19th December 2003
Ill and politically incoherent, President Conté keeps going by eliminating all opposition
- Vol 44 No 7
- 4th April 2003
As President Lansana Conté lies dying, the international
community courts Guinea
- Vol 44 No 6
- 21st March 2003
After Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia, neighbouring Guinea faces troubled times. President Lansana Conté, who has heart trouble, diabetes and a heavy smoking habit, seems too ill to succeed himself when his term runs out in December. After three we...
- Vol 43 No 10
- 17th May 2002
Explosions in Conakry's main army camp on 5 May were not because of a coup but they show how the army's dominant role is becoming a liability.