Lansana Conté

Vale is bidding for a 50% stake in the mine from Israeli entrepreneur Beny Steinmetz himself the beneficiary of a deal signed by the late President Lansana Conté in December 2008...

He returned only after Lansana Conté took power in the 1980s...

He left the government of the late President Lansana Conté in 2000 on the back of a financial scandal...

Before leaving office former Mines and Geology Minister Mahmoud Thiam gave Rio Tinto a February deadline to withdraw from the two blocks that late dictator Lansana Conté had awarded to Beny Steinmetz...

After Sékou Touré’s death Condé returned to see if the new regime under the then Corporal Lansana Conté was serious about its promises to hand over to a democratic government...

Mamadou Sylla one of the richest men in Guinea and a backer of former military leader General Lansana Conté is also supporting Condé...

Contesting are Cellou Dalein Diallo once Prime Minister under President Lansana Conté and Alpha Condé who has always been in opposition...

If as seems probable the eventual winner is Diallo his opponents may claim that after the coup and the elections nothing has changed since the days of Lansana Conté who died in December 2008...

Steinmetz’s firm relies on a shadowy system inherited from President Lansana Conté who died in December 2008...

He was badly tortured under the military regime headed by General Lansana Conté who died in December 2008...

Papa Koly Kourouma a close ally of Dadis who took 5% of the vote is likely to join Condé as is Ibrahim Sylla with 3% and Ibrahima Kassory Fofana formerly economy minister under Lansana Conté...

Thiam’s mentor is Ibrahima Kassory Fofana who was once inseparable from Diallo when they both served in Lansana Conté’s military regime but they may have fallen out...