Guinea News

Tuesday, December 08, 2009 Uncertainty trails Guinean leader's health position Courtesy of the Nigerian Guardian CONTROVERSY yesterday continued to trail the true position of Guinea's military strongman, Capt.

Conakry, Dec 7 The Economic Community of West African States urged the military junta in Guinea to step down and restore the civilian government.

Guinea's military junta chief is in a "difficult" condition after an assassination attempt and a return to Guinea is not imminent, a junior French minister who works on relations with African countries said on Wednesday.

Guinea's military government suspended crisis talks with opposition groups while its leader recovers from surgery for gunshot wounds in Morocco.

"The circumstances that led Aboubacar Sidiki Diakite to shoot Dadis Moussa Camara, are not clear.

Guinea's communications minister on Tuesday accused the French secret service of being complicit in an assassination attempt against the West African country's leader.

Commando units loyal to the wounded leader of Guinea's military junta swept through neighborhoods near the capital on Monday, arresting civilians believed to have ties with the renegade soldier that tried to assassinate their leader.

Conakry, Guinea - The overnight return to Guinea of the No. 2 man in the junta that seized power a year ago makes it more likely that the military clique will be able to hang on to power following an assassination attempt on their president.

A regional African bloc on Sunday called for Guinea to return to civilian rule as the junta's No.

Guinea vice-president takes helm Guinea's vice-president has returned from business abroad to take charge of the country after an attempted assassination on the president.

Up a dirt road inside the thick forest here, many fear the seeds of Africa's next civil war are being sown.

Guinea's capital was on edge on Saturday following a botched assassination attempt on the head of the ruling junta, with residents bracing for further violence between out-of-control army factions.

Guinea has raised security levels in the capital, Conakry, after the country's de facto president survived an assassination attempt by the head of his own presidential guard.

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Guinea's security forces are continuing to arrest and harass activists and others, following a massacre during a political protest on 28 September, Amnesty International found during a recent visit to Guinea.

According to the Voice of America , Mouctar Diallo, a prominent Guinean human rights' activist, was arrested by soldiers in Conakry.

The wife of Mouctar Diallo, a former employee of the U.S. Embassy, says her husband was arrested by Guinea's ruling junta.

The cries of the victims of a massacre of opposition demonstrators in Guinea have hardly been heard outside the West African country.

Kai Massaquoi is seen here at the basketball courts at James Logan High School, were he spends time playing hoops, in Union City, Calif., on Tuesday, Nov.

Soldiers patrol on a vehicle near the international airport in Conakry October 5, 2009.