Lansana Kouyaté

With all the changes, I failed to mention that about a month ago Guinean president Lansana Conté finally under pressure from inside and outside of Guinea chosed a prime minister (PM) - Lansana Kouyaté, that majority of Guineans agree. According to the agreement signed by Conté and the union leaders, PM will be the chef of the government and can and will form a brand new government, that is to be signed off by Conté. It took almost a month since the PM assumed his post, people were starting to get worried, that the PM formed his new government composed of 19 ministers. All 19 ministers are new and mostly technical people who does not represent any political parties. None of the old ministers were retained. People breathed a sign of relief.

We still have to wait to see how things develop. Conté is still in the pictures, his entourage won't be that willing to give up their gain in this country so full of natural resources. The country is in such a mass. Reform will be long and difficulte.