Guinea President Alpha Conde purges top civil servants
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- Published on Thursday, 30 December 2010 19:00
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Guinea President Alpha Conde purges top civil servants
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All civil servants in the office of Guinea's president and prime minister are to be replaced, Alpha Conde orders, nine days after being sworn in.
The BBC's Alhassan Sillah in Conakry says hundreds of people are affected by the decree.
He says many are believed to be beyond the retirement age but remained in work because of their political connections.
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Mr Conde, a veteran opposition leader, was declared the winner of Guinea's first democratic election in 52 years.
Those losing their jobs have all been put at the disposition of the employment ministry to either redeploy them or second those who are due for retirement, according to the decree read out on national television.
Our correspondent says unemployment, particularly among graduates, remains endemic in Guinea, partly because previous regimes have allowed their political allies to remain in office.
Guineans are among the poorest people in West Africa, despite the fact that the former French colony is the world's leading exporter of the aluminium ore bauxite.
Source: BBC
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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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