the Parti du Progrès Guinée (PGP) and founded a year later, the Parti du Progrès et du Renouveau (PRP) ("Revival and Progress Party"). The pressure of the growing opposition created the bloodless coup which led to President Lansana Conté coming to power. In the uneasy presidential election in Guinea of 1993, Diallo was a candidate for president and one of Conté's main rivals. He accused the government of electoral fraud. From 1995, Diallo was a deputy in the National Assembly of Guinea. In the 1998 Guinean presidential election, Diallo's Union pour la Nouvelle Republique (UNR) joined forces with Mamadou Bah and Union pour le Progrès et le Renouveau (UPR) ("Union for Progress and Reform"). Diallo became the leader of the UPR, a Fulani supported party and worked towards engagement with the electoral process. The joint bid in Fulbe by the politicians, however, intensified ethnic conflict. At the same time, this alienated the 1998 planned expulsion of over a hundred thousand people, most of whom were Fulani, from a district of Conakry, the Fulbe from the Conté regime. There were violent protests and clashes between the population, opposition and police. In the parliamentary elections in 2002, Diallo's UPR was the only opposition party to participate, and it won 20 of the 114 parliamentary seats. He stood again for presidency in the 2003 Guinean presidential election, participating in a national election tour. Among other issues, he opposed the charge finding that the UPR had conducted a secret agreement with the government. The elections, however, were boycotted by all major opposition parties, including the UPR, due to lack of fairness. Diallo denounced political fatalism. He died on March 14, 2004, in Paris at the age of 68 years from a cardiac arrest. References Guinean journalists 1936 births 2004 deaths People from Labé Members of the National Assembly (Guinea) Cheikh Anta Diop University alumni 20th-century journalists