Guinea junta freezes government bank accounts to help secure assets -TV statement

Guinea's military junta, which seized power over the weekend, said in a TV statement on Thursday that it had frozen all government bank accounts in an attempt to secure state assets.

"This includes public administrative and commercial establishments in all ministries and the presidency, presidential programmes and projects, members of the outgoing government as well as senior officials and administrators of state financial institutions," a junta spokesman said.

On Sunday a group of special forces soldiers said they ousted President Alpha Conde over concerns about poverty and endemic corruption.