On 14 January Conté at last opened talks with the main opposition leaders though his outstanding critic Alpha Condé was sentenced last September to five years in gaol by the State Security Court...
Alpha Condé of the Rassemblement du Peuple Guinéen (RPG) was also a presidential candidate and has been gaoled despite his parliamentary immunity; the European Union United States and United Nations have all said he should be released but the government has done nothing...
Conté and his allies try hard to make it seem that Alpha Condé is connected with the rebels seeking to justify his arrest by claiming in effect that he was trying to launch a coup d'état with help from President Taylor...
However Alpha Condé remains in gaol and talks without the most radical opposition leader look unreal...
The respected Guinean opposition politician Alpha Condé is accused by Conté of plotting dangerously with Taylor...
Neighbouring Guinea should amnesty the gaoled Alpha Condé he said and return to democracy...
Vol 40 No 16 |
- FRANCE
- AFRICA
In Guinea also active in Ecomog and the world's second bauxite producer Chirac failed to get General Conté to free oppositionist Alpha Condé head of the Rassemblement du Peuple Guinéen who has been in Kaloum gaol since he lost another controversial presidential election in December...
The RPG President Alpha Condé stayed at home in Paris until his triumphal arrival at Conakry airport on 1 December...
