Guinea: a still tense security situation in Conakry

Soldiers patrolling in Conakry, October 25, 2020. The army has been requisitioned to maintain order.

Carol Valade / RFI

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While violence has taken place since election Sunday, the security situation remains very tense in Conakry.

A mission from the international community is trying to calm the situation during a day of dialogue with the various actors.

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With our special correspondent in Conakry,

The situation in Conakry varies greatly from one neighborhood to another.

The city center is more lively than the last two days.

Access to Kaloum, the administrative and business district, is still filtered, the defense and security forces check the car trunks.

On the way to the outskirts, there were no demonstrators in sight, but a few makeshift roadblocks with stones and tires.

The Bambéto district is accessible again, but under close surveillance.

There are still traces of the violence of recent days, including car wrecks, shops set on fire.

Strong military device

A little further in the upper suburbs of Conakry, in neighborhoods deemed favorable to the opposition, several witnesses have been reporting shooting since 6 a.m. this morning.

In Kosa, for example, the inhabitants holed up in their homes claim to see police, gendarmes and red berets passing by.

There, the shops are closed.

There is a strong military system with several army corps that have been requisitioned to ensure the maintenance of order.

The FNDC, which had called for mobilization from today, explains that the demonstrators do not have the possibility of leaving.

The FNDC which says it refused to meet the tripartite delegation which is on site in Conakry.

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It is in this context that

, the African Union and the United Nations must meet all the parties on Monday when it arrived Sunday at midday.

It notably includes Jean-Claude Kassi Brou, President of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and Mohamed Ibn Chambas for the United Nations.

Meetings of all stakeholders

There will be meetings with officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission, the Prime Minister, G5-ECOWAS ambassadors as well as African ambassadors.

Then also on the program, meetings planned with the two main players in the standoff, Alpha Condé and Cellou Dalein Diallo.

The problem is that the leader of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) explains that he is ready to receive this delegation at his office, therefore at the headquarters of his party which has been closed since Wednesday, October 21, and not at his home where he is under surveillance by the security forces.

It is not possible to enter or leave his residence.

It is therefore difficult to know if the delegation will actually be able to meet him face to face with this condition.

Cellou Dalein Diallo who explained on the phone a few moments ago that he " 

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The delegation should take stock of its mission at the very end of the day in front of the press.

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