Soldiers have continued sporadic shooting to warn President Lansana Conté and his new Prime Minister Lansana Kouyaté that they are still unhappy...
The appointment of Lansana Kouyaté as Prime Minister could be a turning point in Guinea's long crisis or an attempt to shore up a crumbling dyke...
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...
Union leaders said they would reject any ally of Conté's and that there were plenty of alternatives such as Lansana Kouyaté (former representative in Somalia of the United Nations Secretary General) who had visited Conakry to offer his services...
The EU's withdrawal leaves just Lansana Kouyaté former Secretary General of the Economic Community of West African States as a neutral observer with little clout...
Vol 39 No 5 |
- WEST AFRICA
Looking for troopsEnthusiasm for hands-on involvement by other West African countries in Freetown is not running high: the Committee of five Ecowas countries (Nigeria Ghana Guinea Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia) in Freetown on 18 February in fact consisted of Ikimi and Ecowas Executive Secretary Lansana Kouyaté...
His successor is compatriot Lansana Kouyaté who fell from high- profile grace at the United Nations when Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali retired...