President Conde reshuffles his cabinet
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - President Alpha Condé of Guinea, on Monday announced a minor reshuffle of his government, marked by the return of two former ministers, appointed to the departments of Security and Civil Protection, and Health.
A decree, read on public television, gave no reason for the slight reshuffle of the government team, interpreted, however, by observers as sanctions against the Ministers of Health, Edouard Niakoye Lamah, and Security, Alpha Ibrahima Kéïra.
They believe that Mr Kéïra's dismissal was the result of the latest social movements in which tean people were shot dead, probably shot by police and gendarmes involved in maintaining law and order.
The Minister-Counsellor to the Presidency of the Republic, Albert Damatang Camara, former Minister of Pre-University Education, is the new head of the Security and Civil Protection Department.
Colonel Rémy Lamah, a doctor, is once again Minister of Health, a department he headed from 2014 to 2016.
Former ministers Edouard Niakoye Lamah and Alpha Ibrahima Kéïra are appointed Ministers of State Advisers to the Presidency of the Republic.
This slight ministerial reshuffle comes a year from the end of Alpha Condé's second five-year term, suspected by opposition leaders and civil society actors of wanting to change the Constitution through the organization of a referendum to run for a third term.
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