“ From Paris to Berlin, Mamadi Doumbouya’s lobbying to extend the transition “. This is the title of an Africa Intelligence article published Tuesday February 20. The end of the transition in Guinea is scheduled for the end of 2024, but the president clearly wants to extend it by at least one year until the end of 2025.
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Will the transition in Guinea last another year? According to the information site specializing in the African continent, Africa Intelligencethe Guinean government has sounded out some of its Western partners about an extension of the transition, beyond the two-year period agreed with the Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Initially scheduled to end at the end of 2024, the junta brought in by General Mamadi Doumbouya would like to extend the transition until 2025. “ It’s been a while since we’ve been wondering about the determination shown by the transitional authorities to leave power within a year. “, notes Pierre Elie de Rohan Chabot, the author of this article, speaking to RFI.
President Doumbouya has sent certain emissaries to certain Western countries, including France and Germany. “ In the French case, it is the former Minister of Defense since the dissolution of the government, General Aboubacar Sidiki Camara, better known by his nickname “Idi Amin”, who was dispatched to Paris at the beginning of December 2023 to meet at a higher level with the French authorities, to address precisely this sensitive subject of the extension of the transition desired by President Doumbouya », explains the journalist. Other transition executives, such as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Morissada Kouyaté, would have given a completely different speech. In December 2023 in Berlin, the latter reassured German partners of his government’s desire to withdraw by the end of 2024.
What form will the transition take in Guinea? Would it simply be expected to last another year? “ There are thoughts about a sort of political deal that would allow the president to leave power for a five-year presidential term and then be able to return. So that is indeed one of the scenarios which is also on the table and which those close to the president are thinking about », assures Pierre Elie of Rohan Chabot.
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