Death of Guinea’s very own Lansana Conté
The President of Guinea’s National Assembly, Aboubacar Sompare, has just declared that at 6:45 p.m. of Monday, the African’s nation Lansana Conté has already died. The latter was then suffering from chronic diabetes which was the known cause of his death and was once diagnosed with leukemia.
Conté was born around 1934, the exact date being unknown to him, in Dubreka. There he was educated at an Islamic School, afterwhich he attended French military schools in Ivory Coast and Senegal. He joined the French army in 1955 and three years later, he became an officer. Conté came to power as the second president in a military coup in 1984 which was after his predecessor, Ahmed Sékou Touré, died. The consitution and parliament was then suspended prompting Conté to establish a committee for national recovery.
General Lansana Conté had been a chain smoker. He had ruled over the West African nation for a period of 24 years with an iron fist. For the past three years, he had repeatedly left the country to seek medical treatment in Morocco and Switzerland where his opponents wrongly predited that he will no longer return everytime he leaves.
According to one of his interviews, he had said tat he would rule over Guinea, West Africa until the expiration of his presidential term and that would still be in the year 2010. Unfortunately, at 74, he had died due to health problems.
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