AfricaNews Monitoring desk
Guinea's current military leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara has said he will not run in the forthcoming elections. He said none of the other leaders who helped bring him to power in December's coup would run either. Camara came to power in a bloodless coup after the death of President Lansana Conte.
Polls are due to take place in Guinea, a mineral rich country, at the end of the year.
"We're heading into elections. I am not going to run and the members of the CNDD (National Council for the Defence of Democracy) are also not going to run," Capt Camara was quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.
But despite ruling himself out of the running, the captain criticised politicians for trying to force the military to leave power early.
In April, two army officers were arrested on suspicion of plotting a coup, as Capt Camara prepared for his first official trip outside the country.
More than a third of the world's bauxite reserves are in Guinea, but its people are among the poorest in West Africa.
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