CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Ibrahima Diallo spends his days in Bed No. 7 of the municipal hospital here, waiting for the bones in his face to glue themselves back together. His teeth are tied shut, so it is hard for him to talk — but even if he could, he'd have little to say to the patient in Bed No. 8.
That man also has a broken cheekbone. And like Diallo, he too was injured in the spasm of pre-election violence that swept Conakry last month. Yet the gulf between the two hospital beds is a mirror of the ethnic divide at the heart of Guinea's political life, which is threatening to derail what was supposed to be the country's first democratic election since independence in …
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