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鉱山資源豊富なギニアの暗殺未遂、欧米の機関の仕掛けなのでしょうか。
ナイジェリアではシェルが止まっていた石油プラントの稼動を再開しています（14日付けアルジャジーラ）。
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/4189147.stm
Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 January, 2005, 19:48 GMT
Guinea leader 'survives coup bid'
*Shots fired at a convoy carrying Guinea's ailing President Lansana Conte were an assassination attempt, his security minister says.
"There was an attempt on the life of the head of state, but the assailants did not hit their target," Moussa Sampil told Radio France International.
Mr Sampil said that the president was unhurt and that a number of people had been detained.
Security has been tightened around the presidential palace.
The incident happened a year after the president was sworn in for a third term, following his victory in controversial elections.
Details of the incident are still sketchy, but the BBC's Al Hassan Sillah in Conakry says shots were fired as the convoy passed through a neighbourhood of the capital known as Enco 5 at around 1500 (1500 GMT).
It is not known who fired the shots or whether they hit any of the vehicles in the president's convoy.
The president's bodyguards returned fire, and reports say a member of the president's security team riding a motorcycle alongside the convoy was wounded.
*Turbulent region
Mr Conte, 69, seized power in a coup in 1984.
He won a third term in elections in December 2003, after Guinea's constitution was changed to allow him to stand again.
Mr Conte is a diabetic, and correspondents say doubts about the president's health have led to worries about a possible future power struggle.
There have been no reports on the incident on state-controlled television or media.
Members of the government were meeting on Wednesday afternoon in the presidential building, according to the Reuters news agency.
Guinea, a mineral-rich country positioned between Sierra Leone and Liberia, has been viewed as generally stable in an otherwise turbulent region.
*The Anglo-Dutch energy group Shell has reopened all its oil-pumping stations shut down last month because of community unrest in southern Nigeria, a spokesman has said.
"Ekulama I is up," the spokesman said on Friday, referring to the last of several flow-stations to reopen after angry villagers from the Kula community forced Shell to shut down the facilities on 5 December.
The shut-down caused a production loss of about 130,000 barrels per day of crude oil exports from the Bonny export terminal.
Shell is Nigeria's biggest operator, accounting for almost half of the west African country's daily exports of 2.5 million barrels.
The Anglo-Dutch oil giant has in the past week gradually reopened three other plants - Belema, Santa Barbara and Ekulama II - which led to a resumption of 65,000 barrels per day out of the 130,000 total.
A spokesman could not say if the reopening of the Ekulama I plant on Friday would enable Shell to reach the peak production of 130,000 barrels per day from the protest-hit stations.
"I will advise on production rates later in the afternoon," he said.
*Unrest
Community unrest had forced Shell to shut down the stations accounting in December last year when villagers from Kula briefly occupied them.
The shut-down forced Shell to warn clients it would not be able to meet export contracts from its Bonny terminal until early next month.
The company reopened Ekulama II on Wednesday after successfully carrying out inspection checks on the facility.
Last week, the company resumed production of 47,000 barrels with the reopening of its Belema and Santa Barbara plants in Rivers State.
*Generator gripe
The spokesman said on Friday the company was negotiating with protesters who last week attempted to occupy the Odeama Creek station, about 30km to the west of Ekulama, causing a production loss of 8000 barrels.
The villagers were protesting because a power generator provided for them by Shell had broken down and they expected the company to repair it.
"We are still repairing the generator. Hopefully by next week the job would have been done and we will restart the plant," the spokesman said.
Shell, like most oil majors operating in the coastal swamps of the oil-rich but troubled Niger delta, is regularly the target of community protests and hostage-taking.
AFP
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