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	Lansana Conte - MSN Encarta
		Lansana Conté, born in 1944, president of Guinea (1984- ).
		Born in Dubréka in southern Guinea, Conté was educated at military schools in Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
		Conté's economic reforms, including currency devaluation and reduction of government spending, met with the approval of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and, coupled with efforts to realign with Western nations, encouraged foreign investment.
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	Politics of Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lansana Conté and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery (CMRN), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré.
		With Conté as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.
		In December 1993, Conté was elected to a 5-year term as president in the country's first multi-party elections, which were marred by irregularities and lack of transparency on the part of the government.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Politics_of_Guinea (871 words)

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	Lansana Conté - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Conté's economic reforms, including currency devaluation and reduction of government spending met with approval of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and realignment with western nations encouraged foreign investment.
		Conté, candidate of the newly formed Party for Unity and Progress (PUP), won 51.7% of the vote; Alpha Condé of the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) was second with 19.6% of the vote.
		Conté, who was unharmed, subsequently went on state radio and television to say that he had survived because God had not yet decided it was his time to die.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lansana_Cont%C3%A9 (939 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Conté refers to himself as "a peasant farmer with the head of a military man" and remains the army's commanding general while also serving as the country's "elected" president.
		Under Conté's leadership, the government has sought to restrict the effective mobilization of pro-democracy groups through the systematic use of coercion, the selective distribution of state patronage and the active manipulation of the electoral process.
		The presidential election of 1998, which was believed to be more transparent and fair than the deeply flawed 1993 electoral contest, nevertheless, was marred by civil unrest, widespread and diverse irregularities that tended to favor the incumbent and the arrest and detention of major opposition candidates during the vote-counting process.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Gui1.htm (1403 words)

	SABCnews.com - africa/east_africa
		Guinea's ailing leader Lansana Conte survived an assassination attempt yesterday morning, his security minister said, after unidentified men in military uniform were reported to have fired on his convoy.
		Conte, a diabetic chain-smoker who is rarely seen in public, has ruled the former French colony since seizing power in a 1984 coup but there have been growing concerns about his health and what will happen if he dies or becomes unable to govern.
		Conte, who turns 71 this year and is said to be unable to walk unassisted, voted in that poll by handing his ballot from his Toyota Land Cruiser.
	www.sabcnews.com /africa/east_africa/0,2172,96104,00.html (622 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Guinea President Escapes Assassination Attempt-Govt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Guinea's ailing leader Lansana Conte survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday morning, his security minister said, after unidentified men in military uniform were reported to have fired on his convoy.
		CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's ailing leader Lansana Conte survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday morning, his security minister said, after unidentified men in military uniform were reported to have fired on his convoy.
		Conte, who turns 71 this year and is said to be unable to walk unassisted, voted in that poll by handing his ballot from his
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/01/19/guinea_troops_step_up_security_after_coup_talk (706 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Guinea's strongman feels the heat
		Guinea's ailing head of state, Lansana Conte, is under pressure as never before as demonstrators paralyse the country with a general strike, demanding he resign.
		President Conte was held hostage for several hours.
		Political opposition to President Conte is almost non-existent due to a combination of the repressive-style of rule from this soldier-turned-democrat on the one hand, and disunity among opposition political parties on the other.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/africa/6287961.stm (651 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Army dissidents suspected of Guinean leader attack
		Conte's convoy was attacked as he drove through an outlying suburb of the crumbling, pot-holed capital Conakry, according to Security Minister Moussa Sampil.
		Conte, a diabetic chain-smoker who seized power in the mineral-rich West African nation in a coup in 1984 and is rarely seen in public, has ruled with an iron fist, surviving several coup attempts.
		But Conte, who says he was born around 1934, has no obvious successor and analysts say his death may spark a violent scramble for power in a country where the military is divided along ethnic and generational lines.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050120-0400-guinea-coup.html (437 words)

	Little enthusiasm for election with guaranteed outcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Conte was an army colonel when he came to power in a military coup shortly after the death of Guinea's first president, Ahmed Sekou Toure, in 1984.
		Conte appeared in public only once during the election campaign and state television showed him voting on Sunday at the Samory military barracks in Conakry without getting out of his official car.
		Conte has not appointed any obvious successor, either in the army or his ruling Party of Unity and Progress (PUP) and many diplomats consider that the only way to prevent a potentially violent power struggle from breaking out when he finally goes is for the army to take power in a coup.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=38533 (1220 words)

	BBC NEWS \| World \| Africa \| Country profiles \| Country profile: Guinea
		Lansana Conte seized power in a bloodless coup in 1984 and has ruled with an iron fist ever since.
		Mr Conte, from the minority Soussou ethnic group, says he was born in the 1930s.
		Former UN diplomat Lansana Kouyate was appointed by President Conte in February 2007 under a deal to end a general strike against the president's rule.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1032311.stm (845 words)

	iafrica.com \| news \| world news Guinea's ruling party returns to power
		The ruling party of Guinea's President Lansana Conte has won a solid majority in parliament from elections boycotted by the main opposition coalition in the west African country, according to official results announced late on Monday.
		Conte's Progress and Unity Party (PUP) took 85 of the 114 parliamentary seats at stake in the June 30 vote, Interior Minister Moussa Solano announced.
		Conde ran against Conte in presidential polls in December 1993 and December 1998, but the first time around the authorities disallowed votes in his strongholds, and shortly after the last election he was arrested and charged with treason.
	iafrica.com /news/worldnews/993588.htm (449 words)

	Conte sacks economic team in reshuffle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The top-level changes follow Conte’s re-election for a further seven-year term in presidential elections on 21 December that were boycotted by all the country’s main opposition parties.
		Conte, a former army colonel, who came to power in a 1984 coup, sacked his prime minister for the past five years, Lamine Sidime, in the first phase of the reshuffle, announced on 23 February.
		Conte, 69, is now too ill with diabetes and a suspected heart condition to walk unassisted and he seldom appears in public.
	www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=39790 (693 words)

	Guinea Forum - General Lansana Conte’s shame legacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		But for General Lansana Conte, speaking or denouncing these mediocre achievements of his 18 years of power is, in his views, a malicious propaganda spread by external foes and internal vested interests.
		Over the years, General Lansana Conte has consolidated his hold on power by surrounding himself with a sycophant court and cronies ready to do whatever he want to and to say whatever he want to hear, singing his praises, and hailing him as Guinea's guiding priest or Imam.
		General Lansana Conte has done nothing to improve its record of corruption, ethnic favoritism, and human rights abuses on the contrary, he has overseen the real entrenchment of a system of patronage in Guinea.
	www.guinea-forum.org /Editorial/showEditorial.asp?ID=7&Lang=A (671 words)

	Inter Press Service News Agency
		FRAD Chairman Mamadou Ba described the vote as ”a farce and a mockery of democracy.” Ba, who is leader of the Union of Democratic Forces, told IPS in Conakry that, ”The election results are a foregone conclusion.
		Conte is sure to win because his Unity and Progress Party (PUP) had fixed everything ahead.” ”But, we will resist his undemocratic tendencies,” he added.
		I think Lansana Conte and his PUP are bent on holding on to power.
	www.ipsnews.net /africa/sendnews.asp?idnews=21673 (628 words)

	Politics of Guinea
		Lansana Conte[?] and styling itself the Military Committee of National Recovery[?] (CMRN), took control of Guinea in April 1984, shortly after the death of independent Guinea's first president, Sékou Touré[?].
		With Conte as president, the CMRN set about dismantling Touré's oppressive regime, abolishing the authoritarian constitution, dissolving the sole political party and its mass youth and women's organizations, and announcing the establishment of the Second Republic.
		In 1995, Conte's ruling PUP party won 76 of 114 seats in elections for the National Assembly amid opposition claims of irregularities and government tampering.
	www.fastload.org /po/Politics_of_Guinea.html (751 words)

	Knocking on Conte's Closed Doors
		But Conte has had many talks with the Liberian ruler, and finally decided that talks with Taylor, a man he now contemptuously refers to as a "rogue" and an "international criminal", serve no purpose.
		Reports say Conte told a visiting Obasanjo how disappointed he was in Nigeria, a country on whose side Guinea, with its meager resources and unsupported by donors as in the cases of Ghana, Senegal, etc., stood during the Liberian campaign when Nigeria was a declared and hated pariah condemned by the West.
		Conte's allegations gained credence when Obasanjo returned home singing the songs of no sanctions against Taylor and no alternative in handling his fellow Baptist's destructive regional campaign.
	www.theperspective.org /conte_closed_doors.html (2384 words)

	Guinea, Africa Information
		Guinea has had only two presidents since gaining its independence from France in 1958.
		Lansana CONTE came to power in 1984 when the military seized the government after the death of the first president, Sekou TOURE.
		Guinea did not hold democratic elections until 1993 when Gen. CONTE (head of the military government) was elected president of the civilian government.
	guinea.africa.com (109 words)

	CNN.com - Guinea's leader expected to win poll easily - Dec. 20, 2003
		Guinea's longtime leader Lansana Conte was expected to win easily another term as president Sunday, after opposition parties boycotted the balloting, leaving a little-known parliamentarian as the only challenger for the post.
		Conte's only opponent was Mamadou Bhoye Barry, the sole representative in parliament of the Union for National Progress, a party loosely allied with Conte's ruling Party for Unity and Progress.
		A national referendum approved in 2001 paved the way for Conte to stay in power, removing age limits for the presidency and allowing him to seek a third term in office, which was in itself expanded from five to seven years.
	edition.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/africa/12/20/guinea.elections.ap (438 words)

	CNN.com - Guinea's leader claims victory in re-election bid - Dec. 25, 2003
		Guinea's ailing President Lansana Conte was declared the victor in presidential elections boycotted by this West African nation's opposition, securing a landslide victory with over 95 percent of the vote, according to provisional results released Thursday.
		Conte's win was virtually assured when opposition parties pulled out of the race in November, alleging Conte had no intention of organizing free or transparent elections.
		Conte, 69, suffers from a severe stomach ulcer and diabetes, and has had difficulty walking in recent weeks.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/africa/12/25/guinea.elections.ap (426 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - conte
		Conté, Lansana, born in 1944, president of Guinea (1984- ).
		Born in Dubréka in southern Guinea, Conté was educated at military schools in Senegal,...
		Castiglione, Baldassare, Conte (1478-1529), Italian diplomat and writer, born in Casatico, near Mantua (Mantova).
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	Epochtimes English Edition :: Guinea Opposition Denounces Presidential Election Results
		Votes for the ruling party (Party of Unity and Progress) of President Lansana Conte are counted in a polling station in Conakry.
		Conte has been in power since a military coup in 1984.
		Conte of poor governance and lack of respect for human rights.
	english.epochtimes.com /news/3-12-25/17628.html (304 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Guinea's president escapes an apparent assassination attempt
		CONAKRY, Guinea – Guinea President Lansana Conte escaped an apparent assassination attempt on Wednesday when gunmen opened fire on his convoy in the capital of the West African nation, police and state television said.
		Conte was unharmed, but a member of a security team riding a motorcycle alongside the convoy was seriously wounded and taken to hospital, a senior police official said on condition of anonymity.
		Conte won a landslide election in December 2003 after opposition parties pulled out, alleging Conte had no intention of organizing free or transparent elections.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20050119-1413-guinea-attack.html (373 words)

	Global Vision News Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Conte, 71, and an ailing diabetic, has long been aiding and abetting insurgent activities of short-lived rebel groups such as ULIMO and LURD since the 1990s.
		Conte’s sponsorship of these rebel groups to wage war in neighbouring Liberia sprung out of the brutal way and manner in which members of the Mandingo tribe, an Islamic religious sect, which values and beliefs resonate with the Guinean leader, were treated.
		Conte supports the Ivorian government of Laurent Gbagbo while Gbagbo in turn gives helping hand to MODEL, which is mainly composed of the Liberian Krahn tribal group.
	www.gvnews.net /html/DailyNews/Africa080905.html (1378 words)

	Guinea Forum - General Lansana Conte is flirting with anarchy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The cardinal problem for Guinea is that General Lansana Conte must go for Guinea to have a chance of stabilizing properly and focus on the most important issues of the moment.
		While ordinary people suffer, they are witnessing General Lansana Conte, his family, a clique of his ethnic circle and cronies grown fat in hard currency becoming instant millionaire, cutting slices of the national treasury and mineral resources for themselves.
		Guinean people are still starving and are going without education and healthcare while, General Lansana Conte and his corrupt family, family, his countless mistresses and his ministers enjoy fantastic wealth, homes abroad, or simply use the money to fund military ambitions and hardware, which lead to more suffering.
	www.guinea-forum.org /Editorial/showEditorial.asp?ID=8&Lang=A (966 words)

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