Guinea: junta agrees to return power to civilians after 24-month transition

Colonel Doumbouya surrounded by members of the CRND.

September 17, 2021. AFP - JOHN WESSELS

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Guinea's ruling junta has agreed to return power to civilians after two years, says a document from the Economic Community of West African States released Friday evening (October 21).

An ECOWAS mission had been in Conakry since October 16 to discuss the return to constitutional order. 

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Mouctar Bah

Experts from ECOWAS - staying in Conakry since Sunday - and Guinea have jointly developed a consolidated timetable for the transition spread over 24 months, announces a press release from the sub-regional organization. 

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the president of the transition, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, received this Friday, October 21, 2022 at the Mohammed V palace, a delegation from ECOWAS led by Dr Thomas Boni Yayi.‡️ PIC.TWITTER.com/ bY0fjDlguv

β€” Presidency of Guinea (@Presidence_gn) October 21, 2022

In a speech on Friday evening on national television, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, the president of the transition, announced that the implementation of the timetable established with ECOWAS will come into force from January 1, 2023.  

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β€” Presidency of Guinea (@Presidence_gn) October 21, 2022

As a reminder, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on September 22, the member states of ECOWAS met in an extraordinary summit without Guinea.

They had given the transitional authorities one month to present a reasonable and acceptable timetable, failing which severe sanctions would be imposed on Guinea, which until then had proposed a 36-month transition, rejected by ECOWAS. 

The organization had already suspended all assistance and financial transactions with Guinea and announced the freezing of financial assets and a travel ban in the ECOWAS area for certain personalities.

It is undoubtedly to avoid new sanctions that Conakry has changed its tune. 

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