Guinea poll chief dies days before critical vote
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- Published on Tuesday, 14 September 2010 09:32
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Guinea poll chief dies days before critical vote
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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — A family friend says Guinea's election commission chief has died just days before a scheduled critical election.
Mamadou Bah says Ben Sekou Sylla died overnight Monday at a Paris hospital. Sylla has been ill for some time and a temporary successor was appointed. But his death raises succession issues that could impact the presidential runoff scheduled for Sept. 19.
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Sylla was one of two officials charged with vote tampering during the first presidential poll in June. He was sentenced last week to one year in prison.
Guinea's prime minister said Monday he thought the vote could go forward despite pre-election violence over the weekend. The troubled West African country has known only authoritarian rule since independence from France in 1958.
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Ethnic clashes erupt in Guinea capital
(Reuters) - Rival gangs fought with knives and truncheons in Guinea's crumbling seaside capital on Friday as ethnic tension worsened before an election in the unstable West African nation, witnesses said.
Security forces in full anti-riot gear piled into the backs of pick-up trucks and deployed across Conakry to separate the fighters as President Alpha Conde's government appealed for calm.
"It has become very bad. People set fire to a car right in front of me. I've seen four people injured in the fighting," said Souleymane Bah, a resident of Bambeto, one of several areas where clashes were reported.
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