Lansana Conté was the President of Guinea whose two and a half decades in power left his nation mired in poverty and corruption. 30 December 2008 • 7:10pm Guinea's President Lansana Conté, who ruled ...

CONAKRY, Guinea – Guinea's long-ruling dictator, Lansana Conte, died after a lengthy illness, the head of the National Assembly announced early Tuesday on state-run TV. Conte, believed to be around 70 ...

History appears to be repeating itself in Guinea after the death of one of Africa's longest-running authoritarian rulers, Lansana Conté. Conté came to power in a military coup in 1984 after the death ...

AFP - Guinea's President Lansana Conte, who ruled the West African nation with an iron fist for 24 years, has died after a reign marked by brutal repression in a mineral-rich country that is ...

A Migrant's Fatal Journey 'Now He's Dead and We Have Nothing' Thousands of African migrants die every year on their way to Europe. One family from Conakry, Guinea, bet everything they had on their ...

General Lansana Conté, who has died aged 74, kept a ruthless and sometimes bloody grip on power after becoming president of Guinea in 1984. A career soldier, he kept control of the army, in spite of ...