An assignment trip across Africa
The circumstances wanted
it that I positioned
myself to cover the then
Yugoslav foreign affairs
minister Milos Minic trip
to a number of African
Non-aligned countries
Humidity and heat went hand-in-hand on the runway of Conakry airport. We could see the wide, long red carpet from quite high and the brass instruments of the military band were alarmingly glittering left down on the cement surface while the guardsmen were half alive standing at ease under the merciless sun.