Guinean security forces have been deployed to the southeastern part of the country after at least 54 people were killed and 130 injured in three days of ethnic clashes. A curfew is in place in N’Zerekore, the nation’s second-largest city with a population of approximately 300,000.
The fighting spread from the village of Koule, where guards from the Guerze community beat to death an ethnic Konianke youth they had accused of stealing.
Most Guerze are animist or Christian, while the Konianke are Muslim.
President Alpha Conde appealed for calm and called for national unity in the run-up to long-delayed elections scheduled for September.
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