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Acting Guinea Prime Minister Promises to Form Transitional Government this
Week

   Ricci Shryock | Dakar 20 January 2010
   Map of Guinea

   Guinea's  opposition  leaders  have  chosen  Jean-Marie Dore to be the
   prime  minister  of  the  country's transitional government.  Now that
   acting  junta  leader  Sekouba Konate has returned to Guinea, Mr. Dore
   says the transitional government can be formed within days.
   Guinea's  ruling  military  junta  has  agreed  to form a transitional
   government  with  the  opposition  party's  appointed  prime minister,
   Jean-Marie Dore.
   Tuesday, acting junta commander General Sekouba Konate returned to the
   capital,  Conakry,  after  spending time in Burkina Faso working out a
   deal  with recovering military leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, who
   was  injured in an assassination attempt last month.  Mr. Dore says he
   looks forward to naming the transitional government this week.
   "During the next days, the government will be formed, and we start the
   work," he said.
   Mr.  Dore  says  he  and  other  opposition  members will work to hold
   elections  in  Guinea  within  the next six months, setting the likely
   election date in June.
   "The  function  of a transitional government is to make the election a
   fair election," he said.

   Mr.  Dore  is  the  leader of the opposition Union for the Progress of
   Guinea party.
   Junta  leader  Camara,  who  came  to  power in December of 2008 after
   staging  a  bloodless coup hours after the death of longtime strongman
   ruler Lansana Conte, said from Burkina Faso that he supports returning
   Guinea to constitutional rule.  Mr. Camara was shot in the head by the
   former  head  of  the presidential guard. After being flown to Morocco
   for  treatment,  he is now taking a period of convalescence in Burkina
   Faso.

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