Lansana Conté

According to a leaked letter to the Security Minister Amadou Camara (signed by the State Prosecutor Mohamed Sylla and by President Lansana Conté's aide-de-camp Commandant Mamadouba Soumah) the government arranged after the trial that the witnesses should be resettled in Ireland; the plan failed when the 18 were detained in France...

The LURD rebels have rear bases in the towns of Kissidougou Nzirikori and Macenta with support from President Lansana Conté of Guinea who wants to punish Taylor for backing the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) and Guinean dissidents...

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...