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Guinea

Sidya Touré

Date of Birth: 1945


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Honeymoon over as junta extends rule

The two parties have been joined by more than 50 others including the Union des forces républicaines of another former Prime Minister of Conté's Sidya Touré...


Junta opens transition talks

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...


Diallo jumps the gun

A house belonging to Sidya Touré another former opposition leader who did not participate in this contest was reportedly attacked by unknown assailants...


Terminal turbulence

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...


Condé bids for third term

'No to a third term' is the slogan around which Guinea's major opposition parties hope to rebuild their once united front against Condé fractured when the Union des Forces Républicaines (UFR) leader Sidya Touré accepted a government post as the president's 'high representative' after the 2015 election (AC Vol 57 No 4 Condé strikes out on his own)...

Buoyed by the recovery of its base and its inroads in Haute Guinée the UFR may well seek to test its own strength with a Sidya Touré candidacy in the first round...


Turks in troubled waters

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...


Conté's long shadow

Fofana's was National Investment Director and then Administrator of Grands Projets until 1996 the year Sidya Touré became Prime Minister and vowed to clean up the unaccountable mess Conté's government had become...


Sex, rebels and Paris trips

Diallo is increasingly desperate to rebuild his coalition following the departure of his former ally Sidya Touré who has joined the government as Special Representative of the President (AC Vol 56 No 22 Condé consolidates as opposition regroups)...

Accompanying Condé along with the omnipresent Naby Youssouf Kiridi Bangoura Secretary-General to the Presidency with the rank of minister and Condé's controversial son Mohamed Alpha Condé Paris marked the first foreign trip for Special Representative for Sidya Touré (AC Vol 55 No 3 Condé's house clearance)...


Electoral test for Condé

The interesting question is twofold: will the electorate reward or punish the country's third-largest party Union des forces républicaines (UFR) for the move its leader Sidya Touré made from the opposition camp to the government...


Condé strikes out on his own

In the run-up to the presidential election he fell out with Sidya Touré a former prime minister and leader of the third main party Union des forces républicaines (UFR)...


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