Could this be the next hot spot waiting to erupt?
CONAKRY, Guinea, Feb. 18 — For most Guineans, the last straw came two months ago.
On Dec. 16, President Lansana Conté, went to a city jail to liberate two of his close associates: Guinea’s wealthiest businessman and a former top official of the central bank.
That the two had been locked up in the first place, on charges of embezzling $2.6 million of public money, had come very much as a surprise to the long-suffering Guinean people, who have labored in abysmal poverty under the yoke of authoritarian rule for their entire post-colonial history.
Discontent in Guinea Nears Boiling Point - New York Times
Typically such high-level theft went unpunished, if not unnoticed by civil servants, farmers, laborers and students, most of whom get by on less than a dollar a day.
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