Guinea's main opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo said he was open to participating in a transition following a military coup over the weekend, as the soldiers who seized power consolidated their takeover
West African countries have threatened sanctions following the overthrow of President Alpha Conde, who was serving a third term after altering the constitution to permit it.
His opponents said the change was illegal and frustration boiled over into deadly protests last year. Eighty political prisoners detained by Conde's government, including a number who had campaigned against his third term, were released on Tuesday evening, said Hamidou Barry of the Guinean Organisation of Human Rights.Regional leaders will meet to discuss Guinea on Wednesday - not Thursday, as suggested in a previous staff memo.
Sunday's uprising, in which Conde and other top politicians were detained or barred from travelling, is the third since April in West and Central Africa, raising concerns about a slide back to military rule in a region that had made strides towards multi-party democracy since the 1990s. Conakry was calm for a second day after the putsch, with some military checkpoints removed. Traffic was normal on Tuesday in the capital's administrative centre, the Kaloum peninsula.Special forces members take position during an uprising that led to the toppling of president Alpha Conde in Kaloum neighbourhood of Conakry, Guinea September 5, 2021.
The benchmark aluminium contract on the London Metal Exchange remained near a 10-year high on Monday., bauxite project in Guinea said it was operating normally.
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