Guinea's President Alpha Conde on Thursday dismissed the interior minister and a senior official in connection with their handling of two murder cases, a senior government source said.
Guinea president dismisses interior minister after murders
A source close to the presidency said that the dismissals followed the murders of two brothers in the northern town of Touba, a site of pilgrimage for West African Muslims.
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"Mamoudou Cisse, minister of the interior is stripped of his functions for gross misconduct," said a presidential decree read out on state radio. State secretary for religious affairs El Hadj Abdoulaye Diassy was also dismissed, a second decree said.
A source close to the presidency said that the dismissals followed the murders of two brothers in the northern town of Touba, a site of pilgrimage for West African Muslims.
One was decapitated with a machete and the other stabbed to death during a quarrel over the construction of a mosque. The state prosecutor has since opened an investigation and 13 people have been arrested.
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