Lansana Conté

Despite poor health President Lansana Conté keeps a highly personal grasp on power...

President Lansana Conté is no great fan of his Ivorian counterpart and claims by Guinean opposition politician Jean-Marie Doré of a secret deal between the two leaders were denied by Ivorian government officials...

The former Directeur de Cabinet of Ivorian ex-Premier-turned-opposition-leader Alassane Dramane Ouattara Touré represents at 59 a younger generation than President Lansana Conté and his veteran opponents Alpha Condé (66) and Bâ (71)...

Lansana Conté faces renewed opposition protests after his ostensible re-election in December for another seven-year term...

With a presidential election looming on 21 December Guinea's military high command has banned soldiers from carrying arms in the Samory Touré barracks ­ where President Lansana Conté has his Conakry residence ­ and in the Alpha Yaya Diallo army base...

The dynamic Soumah who has considerable appeal for younger voters and women has the support of Conakry Governor M'Bemba Bangoura and Karime Kane leader of Conté's support group the Comité d'Appui à l'Action de Lansana Conté but his early promotion might have seriously divided the ruling establishment...

In the run-up to the United States' invasion of Iraq when close ally Guinea's Security Council membership made it the focus of intense international interest ailing President Lansana Conté received treatment in Rabat (AC Vol 44 No 7)...

President Lansana Conté is ill with diabetes though he is supposed to run for a third term in elections in December...

Soft on Conté The UN Security Council mission to West Africa led by Britain's UN Ambassador Sir Jeremy Greenstock has tough messages for most leaders in the region but gave Guinean President Lansana Conté an easy ride following Guinea's key role as a Council member during the debates on war against Iraq...

ECOWAS estimates that some 5 000 troops will be needed in Liberia and hopes that some 2 000 troops from outside the region will be drawn from the USA South Africa and Morocco (whose King Mohamed VI initiated the stillborn Casablanca peace talks which brought Taylor face to face with some of his neighbours: Sierra Leone's President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah and Guinea's President Lansana Conté...

President Lansana Conté is ill with no obvious successor and rumours of conspiracy are rife (AC Vol 44 No 7)...