10 injured in Guinea's opposition protests

Ten people were injured, four of them through gun shots fired by security forces, during protests organized Monday by Guinea's opposition, opposition spokesman Aboubacar Sylla said in a statement.

However, Government Spokesman Albert Damantang Camara said only two civilians had been injured.

Sylla said the opposition's call for protests was largely successful as economic and social activities in Conakry as well as in other interior towns of the country were paralysed.

Key opposition leaders, especially Cellou Dalein Diallo of the Union of Democratic Forces in Guinea and Sidya Toure of Union of Republican Forces, were confined in their homes.

"The objective of our public protests is to inform both the national and international community of the gravity of the political crisis facing our country, with the opaqueness in the management of public and electoral affairs," Sylla told the press.

The opposition has vowed to file charges against the government for confining its leaders in their homes, hence preventing them from getting into contact with their supporters.

Monday's protests, just like those organized several times last month, were aimed at calling for the withdrawal of the electoral time table drawn up by the National Independent Electoral Commission.