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Former Prime Minister Suspends Role in Guinea Vote Count

   Scott Stearns | Conakry, Guinea 14 November 2010

Photo: AP

   Guinean   police   take  position  outside  the  Independent  Election
   Commission  building  in Conakry, Guinea, Sunday, Nov. 14, 2010, after
   the  representative  of  presidential  candidate  Cellou Dalein Diallo
   suspended his participation in the vote tallying process.

   Guinea's  former  prime  minster said Sunday that he is suspending his
   party's  participation  in  presidential  vote  counting over what the
   party says is evidence of fraud. The former prime minister is ahead of
   a long-time opposition leader by fewer than 24,000 votes.
   Former  prime  minister  Cellou  Diallo says his alliance is no longer
   taking  part  in  vote  counting  because it has found what it says is
   evidence  of  fraud  in  at  least  three  of  the country's 56 voting
   districts.
   In  two  of  those  districts  -  Suiguri and Kouroussa - thousands of
   members  of  Mr. Diallo's ethnic group were driven from their homes in