Conakry news
By the way, a snippet of news from Conakry. Remember a few months ago I said that I was staying at my boss's house for a few days, with a rather famous neighbour... the president of Guinea, Alpha Conde? Glad I wasn't there this week (my boss wasn't either; fortunately he was on holiday).
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-says-assassination-attempt-on-guinean-president-totally-unacceptable/2011/07/20/gIQAlXZFQI_story.html
I just checked my previous blog and you can see that I took an almost identical photo of the house as the Washington Post/Associated Press.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/19/guinea-president-survives-assassination-attempt
The guardian has more. This is really unexpected - when you're in Conakry you get no real sense of this sort of tension. However the president's under an awful lot of pressure to deliver basic improvements in people's lives, the sort of thing that takes time and people get impatient. Plus of course this isn't a part of the world where everyone's signed on yet to the whole democracy idea anyway, many preferring a strongest takes all philosophy.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/us-says-assassination-attempt-on-guinean-president-totally-unacceptable/2011/07/20/gIQAlXZFQI_story.html
I just checked my previous blog and you can see that I took an almost identical photo of the house as the Washington Post/Associated Press.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/19/guinea-president-survives-assassination-attempt
The guardian has more. This is really unexpected - when you're in Conakry you get no real sense of this sort of tension. However the president's under an awful lot of pressure to deliver basic improvements in people's lives, the sort of thing that takes time and people get impatient. Plus of course this isn't a part of the world where everyone's signed on yet to the whole democracy idea anyway, many preferring a strongest takes all philosophy.
