Guinea: the national assizes committee is formed

Makalé Traoré, candidate of the PACT party in the presidential election, here on October 30, 2020, in Conakry.

Makalé Traoré will sit on the national assizes committee.

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After the publication of their names by a decree of the head of the junta, the people to sit on the national committee of the assizes met this Saturday morning March 26 for a first contact with the prime minister.

They are 31 in number, almost all of them were smiling broadly as they left the courtroom and among them big names well known in Guinea.

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With our correspondent in Conakry,

We can mention first of all the first Imam of the great Faisal Mosque of Conakry, Elhadj Mamadou Saliou Camara and the Archbishop of Conakry, Monsignor Vincent Coulibaly.

Under the former regime, these two religious leaders had co-chaired a provisional national reconciliation commission, the work of which had been launched in March 2015. Sixteen months later, this commission had presented its final report, it was then in June 2016. report that had simply been put away in drawers.

Political figures and the diaspora

In addition to these two religious leaders, there are also political figures including

, former Minister of National Reconciliation, Makalé Traoré, political leader who was

election, Professor Aly Gilbert Iffono, former Minister of Culture.

Other personalities from civil society, lawyers, media men and pharmacists are among the names including Ibrahim Sorel Keita.

He is part of the Guinean diaspora in France and was the spokesperson for the collective for the transition in Guinea.

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