Word: diarra
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Dates: during 1984-1984
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...first Guineans were told only that their country would be run by a 25-member Military Redemption Committee. Two days after the coup, the armed forces announced that Colonel Lansana Conte had been named President and Colonel Diarra Traore would be Prime Minister of a Cabinet composed of eight civilians and 25 officers. Conte, the apparent leader of the coup, had been commander of the Boke region in northwestern Guinea. Louis Lansana Beavogui, the former Prime Minister, who served as acting President for all of seven days after Toure's death, was reported to have taken refuge...