IVORY Coast’s junta leader, General Robert Guei, is said to be alive and well after rumours circulated in Abidjan that he had been involved in a serious road accident. Sources said three paramilitary gendarmes had died and a dozen were injured in a road accident after they had been on presidential security duty along a main road that Guei’s convoy had taken earlier. Abidjan, Ivory Coast’s main city, is awash with rumours in the run-up to a presidential election on October 22, in which Guei is a candidate. – Reuters