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CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) - Security forces fired tear gas at demonstrators in Guinea's capital on Wednesday as street protests spread across the West African country on the eighth day of a general strike aimed at forcing the volatile nation's ailing president to step down.
In Conakry, around 200 protesters led by Rabiatou Sera Diallo, president of the National Confederation of Guinea Workers, walked halfway to the parliament building before they were surrounded by military vehicles. Police in riot gear lobbed canisters of tear gas to disperse the crowd.
Police took Diallo and seven of her colleagues into custody and ferried them in a military car to meet the head of Guinea's parliament, to whom they were brought in a bid to negotiate an end to the street protests. The group rejected any deal and was released shortly after.
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