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Jump to full article: Reuters, 2008-12-23
Intro: President Lansana Conté of Guinea died after an illness, Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souare said early Tuesday.
Mr. Conté, a chain-smoking and reclusive diabetic who was in his 70s, had governed the country since 1984, when he seized power after the country’s first president, Sékou Touré, died in a hospital in the United States.
The government said Mr. Conté had died after a long illness.
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