Guinea: culture and press actors express their grievances to CNRD
Colonel Doumbouya (center) met cultural players and journalists.
(Illustrative image).
AFP - JOHN WESSELS
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National consultations are continuing in Guinea in order to draw up the transition charter.
This Monday, the National Assembly and Development Committee invited in turn cultural actors, press organizations, and finally representatives of the informal sector.
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With our special correspondent in Conakry,
Charlotte Idrac
“
Long live culture!
»Exclaims an artist in front of the People's Palace.
“
Times are tough,
” explains a manager.
“
With the pandemic, everything stopped
.
No concerts, no nightclubs, we're tired,
”he says.
Songwriter Sory Kandia Kouyaté, alias Petit Kandia, spoke on Monday in front of CNRD officials.
"
We must wash the Guinean culture
."
According to him, "
we need new faces at the Ministry of Culture
".
Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, for his part, called on artists to participate in raising awareness for anti-Covid vaccination.
In the process, it was the press organizations that expressed their expectations, in particular more security.
"
We were mistreated
" during the demonstrations against the third term of Alpha Condé, underlines a journalist.
Another complaint from the private press: access to national consultations, reserved for public broadcasting.
Authorization to circulate during the curfew linked to the health crisis, from 10 p.m., was granted to journalists as part of their profession.
Journalists suffered a lot during the fallen regime
Sékou Jamal Pendessa, general secretary of the Guinea Press Professionals Union
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To read also:
Guinea: two weeks after the coup, how is the transition progressing?
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