by DAVID AXE
In a bloodless coup in Guinea a year ago, Captain Moussa Dadis Camara seized power following the death of strongman Lansana Conte. But many in Guinea never accepted Camara’s rule. Three weeks ago, Camara’s former aide Aboubacar Diakite shot and wounded Camara. Since then, Camara has been recovering in Morocco while his second-in-command, Sekouba Konate, leads military elements in hunting for Diakite and his supporters.
More than 100 people died in September during a military crackdown on opposition to Camara’s rule, pictured. Now word has spread that white — perhaps South African — mercenaries are training a tribe loyal to Camara to help prop up the dictator’s regime. “Many fear the seeds of Africa’s next civil war are being sown,” the A.P. reports.
(Photo: Irish Times)
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