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Guinea: after the dismissal of the government, the population awaits the “new lease of life” promised by the presidency
Guinea has been without a government since the evening of Monday February 19, 2024. The team of Prime Minister Bernard Goumou was dissolved by a decree from the president of the transition, Mamadi Doumbouya. Yesterday, February 20, the presidential spokesperson began to give the reasons for this decision: “
It was noted
,” he declared,
“that it was necessary to breathe new life
” into the action of the government. The dissolution is in any case welcomed by some Guineans, while the country is plunged into a serious social and political crisis.
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People watch members of the Guinean national police cross the central Kaloum district of Conakry (illustrative image). © Cellou Binani / AFP
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With our correspondent in Conakry,
Matthias Raynal
There are the optimists, disappointed by the action of the government in place in
Guinea
for two years and who wanted change. Moussa Kouyaté, 25, shoe seller, is one of them: “
For the moment, the president has made the right choice. Since things are not going well, not even at all in the country and in all sectors, things are not going well, we can say that.
»
Many reasons for discontent
Recurring power cuts, rising prices, there are many reasons for discontent. Mamadou Lamarana Diallo is more critical. This accountant questions the usefulness of the precautionary measures decided against the ministers: “
Withdrawal of passports, freezing all this... But we ask ourselves the question,
ultimately
, what does that bring to the population? It's all between them. But for us, ordinary citizens, what’s in it for us? They changed a government, will those who come next be able to reconcile the people?
»
“
Little Hope
”
The other front for the junta is the unions which are threatening to declare a general strike. They denounce attacks on press freedom. However, Ibrahim Kalil Diallo, the deputy secretary general of the journalists' union, is optimistic: “
We hope that there will be a climate that will be favorable to the emergence of free and independent media in our life. In any case, we have this little hope
.” Guinea is still awaiting the appointment of a new government.
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