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Guinea junta suspends finance minister
07 Feb 2009 21:47:27 GMT
Source: Reuters
CONAKRY, Feb 7 (Reuters) - Guinea's military rulers have suspended the finance minister, the junta announced on Saturday.

"The President of the Republic decrees that Captain Mamadou Sande, Minister for Finance and Economy, has been suspended until further notice," Captain Mandjou Dioubate, a spokesman for the military government, said on state television. (Reporting by Saliou Samb; writing by David Lewis)
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