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Jailed politician said to be dangerously ill

[Ghana] Ghanain President John Kufuor. IRIN
Under Kufuor's leadership, Ghana qualified last June for substantial debt relief
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    Jailed Guinean opposition leader Alpha Conde, who has been on hunger strike for 10 days, is dangerously ill, his political party said today, according to AFP. Conde’s Rassemblement du peuple de Guinee (RPG) party said in a statement that its leader’s life was “in danger”. Conde started the hunger strike “to protest the non-respect of his rights”, the RPG said. His lawyers - from Guinea, France and Senegal - say he is being held in isolation. Last month they said they would suspend their defence of their client because the authorities had make the task impossible. Conde, a parliamentarian, ran for president in last December’s elections. He was arrested and accused of state security offences and of recruiting mercenaries to overthrow the current government.

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