EU imposes aid conditions on Guinea junta
The EU on Monday proposed talks with the ruling junta in Guinea, hoping to encourage the introduction of the rule of law.
The EU on Monday proposed talks with the ruling junta in Guinea, hoping to encourage the introduction of the rule of law.
Coup leaders in Guinea named a civilian banker as prime minister, making good on a key promise a week after seizing power.
Former president Lansana Conte was to be buried on Friday as Guinea adjusted to the rule of the military junta that has seized control.
Mutinous Guinean soldiers launched a coup attempt on Tuesday hours after the death was announced of long-serving President Lansana Conte.
Guinea’s President Lansana Conte, who ruled the West African nation with an iron fist for 24 years, has died after a reign marked by repression.
Guinea’s long-ruling dictator, Lansana Conte, died after a lengthy illness, the head of the National Assembly announced early on Tuesday.
The enthusiasm that came with the storming to office of Guinea’s latest prime minister has waned and there are doubts over his capability to lift the country out of misery, a global think tank said on Friday. Lansana Kouyate, an ex-United Nations diplomat, was early this year named Prime Minister by ailing President Lansana Conte.
Sierra Leone arrested eight Guineans, including military personnel and fisheries inspectors, whom it accused of carrying out a pirate attack on two locally licensed fishing vessels, officials said on Monday. But Guinean authorities rejected the piracy charge, saying the men were on a legitimate fisheries protection patrol.