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Newsline: Ottawa to put diplomatic `freeze’ on Guinea
Canada will announce diplomatic sanctions against Guinea over September’s brutal crackdown in the West African country. The new tough line will also include a call to the United Nations to speed an investigation into the Sept. 28 rape and killing of at least 150 opposition supporters attacked by uniformed troops at a political rally in a soccer stadium in Conakry. The Foreign Affairs Department is to announce a diplomatic “freeze” that will prevent Guinean officials from travelling to Canada to expand the embassy staff in Ottawa. It will also announce more stringent screening measures on Guineans seeking visas to come to Canada.
Newsline: Retired Employee Of US Embassy Arrested In Guinea
The wife of Mouctar Diallo, a former employee of the U.S. Embassy, says her husband was arrested by Guinea’s ruling junta. Djenabou Diallo says her husband was arrested and is being held inside the capital’s main military barracks for having criticized the junta in a radio interview. Diallo, a Guinean national, was a longtime employee of the U.S. Embassy in Conakry. After he retired, he became the head of a human rights group.
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