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Union leaders in Guinea are threatening to call another nationwide strike starting next Monday (February 12), but emergency relief agencies say the country is ill-prepared for a round of violence similar to one last month. "Guinea is heading for another strike because nothing has been done by President [Lansana] Conte toward naming a new prime minister," Ibrahima Fofana, head of the Guinean Workers Union (USTG), told IRIN on Tuesday. "Our patience has limits."