CIVICUS discusses prospects for democracy in Guinea with Omolara Balogun, Head of Policy Influencing and Advocacy at the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI), a civil society organisation that promotes civic space and youth and women’s leadership and leverages technology for development.
On 12 May, Prime Minister Amadou Oury Bah announced that general elections will be held in December, following a constitutional referendum scheduled for September. The announcement, made at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, aimed to reassure investors amid repeated delays in the promised transition to civilian rule following a 2021 military coup. The new constitution might allow coup leader Mamady Doumbouya to run for president, in a context where major opposition parties remain suspended or under surveillance and civil society faces severe restrictions.
