Lansana Conté

President Lansana Conté has used Guinea's regional position adjacent to the conflicts in Sierra Leone and Liberia to run a more energetic foreign policy...

He is a Liberian Mandingo whose wife Ayesha became a spiritual advisor to President Lansana Conté after she foretold a 1996 coup attempt...

On 27 February King Mohammed VI's discreet diplomats brought together Presidents Kabbah Liberia's Charles Taylor and Guinea's Lansana Conté (AC Vol 43 No 5) for talks which ended fairly cordially...

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...