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Pourquoi L'Afrique Claudique reflects (Fr) on the Lansana Konte dictatorship in Guinea: “This country, considered one of the 20 poorest in the world despite its economic potential, will only be hurt by a general strike which has been going on for a week along with daily arrests. May those who are in charge on this continent of acting to prevent conflicts that might hurt our peoples do so now in the interest of Guinea and of the continent. Help! Conakry is dying!”
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