CONAKRY, Dec 24 - The military junta attempting a coup in Guinea promised on Wednesday to hold elections in two years time, but the West African state’s top civilian leader appealed to the world to prevent the takeover from succeeding.
There was confusion over who was really running the world’s biggest exporter of aluminium ore bauxite two days after the death of long-serving President Lansana Conte. His death left a power vacuum and triggered a coup bid by a group of officers.
