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| - A recap of the turmoil following the high-stakes presidential election in Guinea on October 18. On October 18, the people of Guinea cast their ballots in a calm but tense atmosphere, after months of deadly protests against a hugely controversial bid for a third term by Alpha Conde. They have at the first round to choose between 12 candidates. The two favourites are Conde, 82, and the main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, 68. With police out in force, the vote goes ahead with "no major incident", security minister Albert Damantang Camara says. But before counting begins, Diallo's supporters decry ballot-box stuffing and say their observers encountered obstructions at polling stations. Guinea's Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana tells local press there had been "small incidents here and there", but nothing major. On October 19, without waiting for official results, Diallo declares he has won the election. "I invite all my fellow citizens who love peace and justice to stay vigilant and committed to defend this democratic victory," he says from his party headquarters. A senior official from Guinea's electoral body says the purported victory is "premature" and "void". Conde's Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) party calls Diallo's move "irresponsible and dangerous". The next day Diallo's campaign director Fode Oussou Fofana accuses the government of "large-scale fraud" in counting ballots from the October 18 poll, in a bid to change results in Conde's favour. Meanwhile, monitors from the African Union and the 15-nation West African bloc ECOWAS both say Guinea's election was mostly fair. Violent clashes take place on October 21, with plumes of black smoke rising over an opposition stronghold in the capital Conakry, where protesters erect barricades and light fires. Youths in alleyways also hurl stones at police officers stationed along a main road who fire back tear gas. Guinea's security ministry says nine people, including one police officer, have died in the post-election violence. The opposition says security forces have barricaded Diallo inside his home and his party headquarters in Conakry have been raided. The opposition tweets that agents were "destroying everything". In the evening the electoral authority announces encouraging partial results for Conde, based on 20 out of 38 constituencies, and covering 2.28 million of the 5.41 million registered voters. On the 22, the Conakry suburbs and several provincial towns are also the scene of clashes between opposition supporters and Guinean forces. Youths put up roadblocks, set fires and throw stones at police officers who ripost with catapults and live fire, according to witnesses. "We have the impression that we are a country at war," Mamadou Moussa Bah, an inhabitant of a Conakry suburb says. Diallo says that at least 19 have been killed in four days of clashes. acm-ang-jmy-eab/cdw
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