Burkina Faso President Blaise Compaore has been given the job of 'facilitator' by the Economic Community of West African States to help ease tensions in Guinea after junta troops killed opposition demonstrators earlier in the week.
In a show of anger following proposed talks with the opposition by Guinea’s military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, demonstrators clashed with police officers outside a mosque in the capital of Conakry on Friday .
Opposition leaders have rejected the ruling junta’s call for a national unity government and foreign intervention that came after the killing of protesters on Monday. The opposition are sceptical of the junta's willingness to share power.
Captain Dadis Moussa Camara, head of the ruling military junta in Guinea, gave an interview to FRANCE 24 in which he revisits Monday’s bloody event in Conakry and addresses the issue of the upcoming presidential election.
Guinea's junta leader has called for a government of national unity and the establishment of an international enquiry into the bloody crackdown on an opposition rally in which human rights groups say 157 people were killed.
Guinea's military ruler has sought to distance himself from the bloodshed that followed a crackdown on opposition protests, claiming he "can't control all the army's actions". Earlier, the junta leader proclaimed a ban on mass gatherings.
Guinea's military ruler has banned mass gatherings while also declaring two days of national mourning, after a brutal crackdown on protests in which rights groups say at least 157 people were killed and more than 1,000 were wounded.
Guinean troops shot and killed at least 157 people, wounded more than 1,000, and raped women after breaking up an opposition rally, opposition sources said. France has announced it will suspend military ties with the former colony.
UN chief Ban Ki-moon and other world leaders have condemned the excessive use of force after Guinean security forces killed at least 157 people at a rally against the country's military junta in the capital of Conakry.
At least 87 people have been killed in Guinea after security forces opened fire on opposition protesters in the capital Conakry, AFP reported. The junta had banned a rally to protest Moussa Dadis Camara's decision to run for election in 2010.
