Lansana Conté

The LURD leadership includes Conakry-based Sekou Kone a Liberian Mandingo with personal ties to President Lansana Conté...

Guineans believe President Lansana Conté is also eager to join the 'third term' club...

On 3 June a beaming President Kabbah helicoptered up to his native Kambia to mark the new-found peace; on the same day he met Guinean President Lansana Conté among the ruins of Parmelap formerly a thriving town on the Guinea-Sierra Leone border...

Guinean security was not discussed: Presidents Lansana Conté Tejan Kabbah and Charles Taylor were not present...

At the same time President Lansana Conté is fast losing any popularity he might have had at the the rigged presidential election of December 1998: like Samuel Doe's regime in Liberia and successive juntas in Sierra Leone Conté's is an easy target for rebels...

President Lansana Conté says Liberian President Charles Taylor is coordinating the operation which has killed more than 350 Guineans and exacerbated the regional effects of Sierra Leone's war...

That presupposes serious peace talks backed by President Taylor and Presidents Lansana Conté and Ahmad Tejan Kabbah...

Presidents Lansana Conté of Guinea and Ahmad Tejan Kabbah of Sierra Leone have lost patience with Taylor and the Liberian-sponsored dissidents and are tolerating if not actively encouraging Liberian rebel groups operating from their countries...

Also under suspicion according to the document are Guinean President Lansana Conté and Cameroonian President Paul Biya for their ambivalence towards Sassou...