CONAKRY (Reuters) - Guinea's main opposition parties said on Friday they will take part in preliminary talks aimed at ending a deadlock over forthcoming elections, after the government agreed to suspend poll preparations.
At least eight people have been killed and hundreds wounded in street protests called by the opposition over accusations that the authorities were planning to rig parliamentary elections due on May 12.
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