Saifoulaye Diallo
El Hadj Saïfoulaye Diallo (* 1923 in Diary, at Labé, † September 25, 1981 in Conakry ) was a Guinean politician.
After visiting the madrasa students of the high school " Camille Guy " in Conakry and eventually graduated from the Academy of Management " William Ponty " in Sébikhotane in Dakar Diallo in 1942 began to work as an accountant. 1943-1947 set in the financial management of the Niger, he makes the acquaintance Djibo Bakarys and entered 1947, a Communist Study Group. In the same year he was ordered back to Guinea to replace in his native village his father as village chief. In Guinea he recorded first contacts with the PDG. In the years 1949 to 1955 he was repeatedly, after a two-year leave of absence from the civil service from 1947 to 1949, mixed and served in various colonial offices in present-day Burkina Faso. There ill with a serious lung disease, he recovered in 1955 for eight months in the Fouta Djallon and analyzed the local political situation within the French colonies. In the same year he participated in Mamou an activity in financial management on without neglecting his political activities and was in elections to the National Assembly in 1956, together with Sekou Toure of Guinea deputy. Elected in March 1957 to the mayor Mamous, he was in the same year President of the Territorial Assembly of the semi-autonomous Guinea and a member of the High Council of French West Africa.
After independence, Guinea, he served as Secretary General of the PDG and President of the National Assembly. It was not until 1963 he joined the Guinean Government and was Minister of State for Justice, and administrative and financial control. 1964 Diallo was Minister of Finance and Planning and the same first and Permanent Representative of the Heads of State of Sekou Touré in its numerous foreign absences. Minister of the general area of finance in 1968 and 1969 he was Minister of Foreign Affairs 1972 Minister without Portfolio in the Office of the President of Guinea and thus de facto Vice President of the country. In 1973 he represented the Ministry of Social Affairs, the seriously ill Mafory Bangoura before he was due to internal problems in the collective executive body of the Guinean state party PDG and because of his own failing health state chairman of the influential loose " State Committee for relations with the countries of the Arab League ". Again, a member of the inner leadership circle of the PDG 1978, in 1979 he was appointed Minister of Health. Shortly before his death, he was assigned the post of Deputy Minister in the National Assembly.
Although Saïfoulaye Diallo had to repeatedly go because of his lung disease in prolonged medical treatments, he formed Broad Guinean politics and formed in a sense, a counterpart to Sekou Touré's sometimes erratic policy, especially to the outside.