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...When young Guinean military officers seized power after Guinea's president Lansana Conté died on Monday aged 74, people lined the streets of Conakry, the capital, to cheer them on. A little-known army captain, Moussa Camara, declared himself the country's new leader, as well as the head of a group of 26 officers and six civilians who go by the name the National Council for Democracy and Development. Conté, who was buried on Friday, was a heavy smoker and a diabetic, and had groomed no successor. The Parliament's speaker Aboubacar Sompare - who by law should...
...Taylor has been harboring members of al-Qaeda," tribunal prosecutor David Crane told a press conference after the president of the tribunal appeared before the Security Council. Chief court investigator Alan White said he has evidence that Taylor "and others" were behind a January assassination attempt on Guinean President Lansana Conte. In addition, he said, Taylor had funneled money from al-Qaeda to a man who later announced his candidacy for Liberia's presidency. Through a spokesman, Taylor, who now lives in Nigeria, denied the allegations. The Sierra Leone court, Western governments and human-rights groups are cranking up pressure...
...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...
...record even for restless Africa. The change took place while British United Airways Flight 321 from London to Freetown bore homeward Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, 39, who had been summoned from his United Nations diplomatic post to head a new military junta, which had overthrown Army Commander David Lansana, who had arrested Prime Minister Siaka Stevens, who had been named to replace Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai, whose government apparently lost last fortnight's elections...
...Lansana did not last much longer than the man he deposed. At week's end a group of dissident officers staged a countercoup, arrested both Lansana and the man who stood to benefit most from his annulment of the elections-Sir Albert Margai-and locked them up with the Governor General and the victorious opposition leader. Then, with the nation's four most powerful politicians out of the way, they named an eight-man "National Reformation Council" to run the country. Headed by 39-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, who was deputy army commander until...