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Guinea's opposition leader claims election victory

by Boubacar Diallo
| October 19, 2020 11:30 AM

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea's opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo declared himself the winner of the West African country's presidential election Monday before the official results have been announced, setting up a tense showdown with the incumbent leader of a decade.

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