The Front Républicain pour l'Alternance Démocratique (FRAD) a five-party alliance including Alpha Condé's Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée (RPG) says it will support a one-year military transition for electoral preparations...
Alpha Condé has substantial support among the Malinké but his backing of President Laurent Gbagbo despite attacks on Guineans in Côte d'Ivoire has created a rebellion within RPG ranks...
One FRAD party is the Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée whose leader Alpha Condé didn't tell the other parties before declaring himself a presidential candidate in November...
Vol 44 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
The President of the opposition Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée Alpha Condé has already declared his candidacy but the other main opposition party the Union pour le Progrès et le Renouveau is weakened by tension between its two leading members Bâ Mamadou and Siradiou Diallo...
Vol 43 No 25 |
- CÔTE D'IVOIRE
The whole thing is grimly reminiscent of efforts to discredit opposition leader Alpha Condé before Guinea's December 1998 presidential election...
The French immigration authorities have created a huge row in Guinea by deporting there a group of 18 Liberians who gave evidence last year in the trial of Guinean opposition leader Alpha Condé...
Vol 43 No 4 |
- WEST AFRICA
Opposition leader Alpha Condé was in France for medical treatment but in his stronghold of Kankan police arrested some 60 of his supporters a week before the vote and a dozen people were hospitalised...
Last month's release of Guinean political prisoner Alpha Condé reportedly owed something to intervention by Wade who still seeks a broader role in West Africa...
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...