ECOWAS mediator returns to Conakry

The West African Organization has announced that the ECOWAS mediator in Guinea, Boni Yayi, will return to Conakry next week to continue his mission.

In a press release published Saturday on its website, the British newspaper, The Guardian, said: ECOWAS He noted that “Boni Yayi, former President of Benin and ECOWAS mediator in Guinea, will return to Conakry next week to continue his mission.”

The same source confirmed that the head of the ECOWAS commission, Omar Aliou Toray, “takes this opportunity to call on the transitional government, the political class and the Guinean civil society to support the mediator and work with him to make his mission successful.”

The transitional government of Guinea announced last week the dissolution of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, a coalition of parties, unions and civil society organizations.

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After mediation by the Economic Community of West African States, the National Self-Defense Council suspended demonstrations on July 30 for a week, before calling for a new demonstration against the transitional government on August 17, ending the truce with no answers to its demands for a “credible dialogue” on the transition to civilians. Energy.

At the end of July, a delegation headed by the President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoko Embalo, the current president of the Economic Community of West African States, went to Conakry to meet with the Guinean transitional authorities.

Colonel Mamadi Domboya, who ousted President Alpha Conde in power for more than ten years (2010-2021) on September 5, pledged to hand over power to elected civilians within three years.

with MAP