Guinea enthrones ex-CBG employee Mohamed Beavogui as new Prime Minister

On Wednesday, Guinea’s military junta named Mohamed Beavogui as the new prime minister. A former civil servant and an expert in agricultural finance, as a prime minister he will preside over the promised transition of back to the democratic rule after a September coup.

Apart from serving as a civil servant, Mohamed Beavogui also worked at the Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinee (CBG), one of the leading producers of Bauxite in Guinea and also the largest in the world. The Guinean government owns 49 percent of the company, and 51 percent is owned by Halco Mining Inc.

He also worked at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation, served as the director general at African Risk Capacity, which is an African Union agency known for helping governments plan for natural disaster.

Mohamed Beavogui is the nephew of Diallo Telli a famous Guinean diplomat and the first secretary general at the Organisation of African Unity, the forerunner to the African Union. In 1977 he was killed by Sekou Touré.

Beavogui’s is also expected to oversee a transition and the exact outline for the same is yet to be defined. His nomination was announced in a decree on national television.

Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya, leader of the September 5 putsch against President Alpha Conde was selected as the interim president last Friday.

Last Friday, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya was elected as the interim president. He was also the leader of the September 5 putsch against President Alpha Conde. Since last year in the West and Central Africa, this was the fourth revolution against President Conde, followed by one putsch in Mali and the other one on Chad.

The West African people feared that an economic crisis would hit the region as a result of which they agreed to impose sanctions on the junta members and their relatives.