Lansana Conté

We hear the head of Rio's iron ore division Sam Walsh asked President Lansana Conté personally whether he knew what had been signed in his name...

Lansana Kouyaté appointed in February 2007 after bloodshed and strikes had almost toppled President Lansana Conté was fired on 20 May...

In Guinea the government is planning to buy back-up supplies of basic staples like rice; food protests pressured President Lansana Conté to change his government in 2007...

The army stands in the wings looking suspiciously at the government of the ailing President Lansana Conté while Conté looks suspiciously at his 'consensus' Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté whom the soldiers suspect of ambitions to be the next president...

However their friend and collaborator Guinean Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté starts the year in the middle of a political struggle between his President Lansana Conté and the country’s increasingly militant trades unionists...

The Mines Ministry has had difficulty finding big enough deposits to hand over and Beijing is cautious about deals signed by the government of ailing President Lansana Conté...

Soldiers have continued sporadic shooting to warn President Lansana Conté and his new Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté that they are still unhappy...

President Lansana Conté's Parti de l'Unité et du Progrès seen as a clique of the Soussou tribe holds the lion's share of parliamentary seats...

Kouyaté's nomination followed a series of general strikes and demonstrations against President Lansana Conté in January and February...

Asha Conneh a former warlord with Liberians United for Reconciliation and Development (LURD) and ally of the ailing Guinean President Lansana Conté claims that Liberian fighters are already crossing into Guinea - and Guinea's Embassy in Monrovia agrees...