Col Doumbouya's latest moves have also led to a rapprochement between two political dinosaurs who for more than a decade were implacably opposed to each other: the Rassemblement du peuple de Guinée (RPG) the party of ex-president Condé – in power between 2010 and September last year - and the Union des forces démocratiques de Guinée (UFDG) of Cellou Dalein Diallo a former Prime Minister under Condé's predecessor Lansana Conté...
On muteInterviewed about the bloc's condemnation of the putsch opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo bluntly said: 'I think these are reactions for form's sake...
With President Alpha Condé detained and reportedly willing to die rather than resign the CNRD has started talking to opposition leaders including former prime ministers Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré...
Constitutional rights campaigners celebrated the release of dozens of political detainees on Tuesday and the coup secured the public endorsement of perennial presidential challenger Cellou Dalein Diallo leader of the Alliance Nationale pour l'Alternance et la Démocratie and an ethnic Peuhl who commands widespread support in the Fouta Djalon region of western Guinea...
Hopes that prisoners would emerge from the Maison Centrale jail on Monday were disappointed but late the next day a trickle of prominent figures emerged including: Abdoulaye Bah and Kéamou Bogolan Haba both in the camp of main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo; and Étienne Soropogui of Nos valeurs communes...
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The main challenger Cellou Dalein Diallo who had earlier announced that he was the rightful victor promises to contest the result in the courts and on the streets (AC Vol 61 No 21 Diallo jumps the gun)...
He accused Sierra Leone's Vice-President Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh of aiding Cellou Dalein Diallo and destabilising the country following an attack on the convoy of the Guinean Prime Minister and campaign director Ibrahim Kassory Fofana...
Three-time presidential challenger Cellou Dalein Diallo decided on 19 October that the best way to respond to the almost certain victory at the polls of the incumbent Alpha Condé was to declare himself the winner before the count was over...
Well-known opposition strongholds like the Conakry suburb of Ratoma and the capital of Moyenne Guinée Labé (home to opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo) will have RPG representatives...
Countrywide anti-third term rallies are organised by the Front nationale pour la défense de la constitution in which prominent opposition politicians like Faya Milimouno and former prime ministers Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré play prominent parts...
Millimouno was charged on 8 April with holding an illegal meeting and causing a public disturbance provoking a series of angry tweets from opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo who heads the Union des forces démocratiques de Guinée (UFDG)...
Opposition leaders Cellou Dalein Diallo and Sidya Touré likened the deal to 'a car boot sale' and called on Parliament to examine and decide on the contract's validity something that should have happened before it was signed...
