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Guinea junta chief not in state to return - France
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 09 - 12 - 2009

Guinea"s military junta chief is in a "difficult" condition after an assassination attempt and a return to Guinea is not imminent, a junior French minister who works on relations with African countries said on Wednesday, according to Reuters.
Captain Moussa Dadis Camara was shot on Dec. 3 and later evacuated to Morocco, where he has been treated for head wounds. He has left behind a power vacuum and a divided military in the world"s number one bauxite producer.
"Camara is in a condition that is apparently rather difficult, but in any case his life is not in danger," said Alain Joyandet, France"s Secretary of State for Cooperation, speaking to reporters after the weekly cabinet meeting in Paris.
"In terms of his capacity to return to Guinea, I don"t think it"s reached that stage yet. For now he is in Morocco and for a certain amount of time, it would seem," Joyandet added.
Moroccan officials said on Sunday Camara was stable after an operation to treat "trauma of the cranium" but they have not given details on when he could be discharged from hospital.
Camara"s Defence Minister Sekouba Konate has taken over as junta chief but as uncertainty about Camara"s future grows, so does the risk of instability in Guinea spreading across a historically volatile region.
Bordering countries Liberia, Sierra Leone and Ivory Coast are trying to rebuild their economies and infrastructure after civil wars and are acutely sensitive to local disturbances.
Sierra Leone"s President Ernest Bai Koroma said his country was securing its frontier with Guinea and preparing for a possible influx of refugees.
"We"re all very, very concerned. All of us believe the situation in neighbouring Guinea is as important to us as even to Guineans themselves," he told journalists late on Tuesday. "Anything happening there ... will have a direct impact on our activities."
In Guinea"s capital Conakry, where gunshots are heard almost daily as soldiers loyal to Camara pursue those linked to his would-be assassin, many residents have grown weary of the latest round in years of power struggles within the army.
"The hardest thing is that I haven"t seen my husband"s body," said widow Salimatou Bah, whose husband was killed when security forces opened fire on a pro-democracy rally on Sept. 28, a crackdown which witnesses said slew more than 150 people.
"The attempt on the life of the president leaves me cold," Bah told Reuters. "More than anything else what I want to is to find what"s left of my husband."


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