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...

The political truce which greeted President Lansana Conté's appointment of Lansana Kouyaté as Prime Minister will be short-lived unless there is a speedy transfer of power...

More than 60 deaths during the January general strike failed to soften President Lansana Conté who is embroiled in another - perhaps terminal - round of confrontation with his opponents...

Union strikers and opposition demonstrators have secured a tactical victory against President Lansana Conté's regime after three weeks of protests during which in January more than 60 people were killed...

President Lansana Conté personally freed them in mid-December and sparked the latest round of trades union protests...

Transparency International calls President Lansana Conté's regime (see Feature) the most corrupt in Africa...

A general strike launched by two trades unions the Confédération Nationale des Travilleurs de Guinée and Union Syndicale des Travailleurs de Guinée on 10 January is threatening President Lansana Conté's grip on power...