Opposition march dispersed in Guinea's capital

CONAKRY, Guinea — Paramilitary police have dispersed an opposition march in Guinea's capital.

An Associated Press reporter who toured the city Tuesday said that security forces had seized control of the roundabouts in the majority Peul neighborhoods.

That ethnicity is associated with opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, who lost last year's presidential election to Malinke candidate Alpha Conde.

Youths who tried to go out were lobbed with tear gas. They responded by hurling rocks at police and many were arrested.

The march was to be the first major demonstration since the election last November, which marked the country's first democratic transfer of power.

The poll was marred, however, by clashes between Diallo's Peul supporters and the mostly Malinke security force which backed Conde.