GUINEA: Mining communities will not let up “despite repression”

CONAKRY Tuesday, November 04, 2008 (IRIN) - People living near Guinea’s mining sites are increasingly taking to the streets to protest the lack of basic services like water and electricity in their communities. At least two demonstrators were killed when security forces put down recent protests but residents and civil society leaders say they will not be deterred. “We have had enough of false promises,” Kalil Soumah, a resident of the mining town of Boké, some 300km from the capital Conakry,...