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Guinea

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Date of Birth: 9 January 1922
Place of Birth: Faranah, Guinea
Died: 26 March 1984


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Vila Algarve

Lisbon has promised to help fund the US$400 000 work needed to restore Vila Algarve on the corner of Ahmed Sekou Toure and Martires Machava avenues in Maputo's smart Polana district...


Vultures gather

In the last change of regime in 1984 General Conté seized absolute power after the death of the dictatorial Independence leader Ahmed Sékou Touré...


Whodunit?

The OGDH has also expressed concern about the revival of the kind of ideological rhetoric last seen under President Ahmed Sekou Touré brought about by the attack...


Honoured dictator

There has been neither visible mention of nor comment on President Thabo Mbeki's recent posthumous decoration of the late President Ahmed Sekou Touré of Guinea...


Up for grabs

Socialist President Ahmed Sékou Touré broke with France at Independence leaving Guinea in unsplendid isolation...


Out for the Conté

Ousmane Arafan Camara Mandingo President's aide and close confidant is backed by some younger officers but suspected by others as he's related to the late dictator Ahmed Sékou Touré; Gen...


Rebels without a plan

Two of the four were members of the Comité Militaire de Redressement National that overthrew the late President Ahmed Sekou Touré in 1984 Armed Forces Chief of Staff Colonel Kerfalla Camara and Col...


The war moves north

Conté first took power in April 1984 after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré...


The calabash bubbles

Cooperation between Taylor's guerrillas Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front and Guinean dissidents led by Ahmed Sékou Touré's son Ahmed has regionalised the Sierra Leone conflict providing the RUF with new routes for military supply and diamond trading...


Cross-border crisis

Taylor and Conté are not friends: Liberia has been hosting the late President Ahmed Sékou Touré's son Ahmed who wants to build a rebel movement to oust Conté...


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