Siradiou Diallo

Siradiou Diallo ( born August 25, 1936 in Labé, † March 14, 2004 in Paris) was a journalist and opposition politicians in Guinea, West Africa.

Political career

Diallo came from Labé in the prefecture Labé in the center of the country. He studied economics at the Universities of Dakar, Poitiers and Paris. After his graduation in 1967 he worked at the Banque Nationale de Paris and the French Ministry of Finance. In addition, he was especially active as a journalist and worked from 1970 for the magazine Jeune Afrique, to the position of chief editor.

In addition to his journalistic activities, he organized an opposition in exile against the regime of Ahmed Sékou Touré and founded, among others, the Comité de la Démocratie en Guinée Réflexion sur ( CRDG ). After the death of Touré in 1984, he returned to Guinea back. In 1991 he became Secretary General of the Parti du Progres Guinean (PGP) and founded a year later, the Parti du Progres et du Renouveau (PRP ). The pressure of the growing opposition led the come in a bloodless coup to power President Lansana Conté, allow political parties as of April 1992. In the presidential election in Guinea in 1993, there were riots, the opposition accused the government of electoral fraud.

As of 1995, Diallo was a deputy in the National Assembly.

At the presidential election in Guinea in 1998 - after the five-year term Conté - joined the PRP Diallo, together with the Union pour la Nouvelle République ( UNR ) Mamadou Bah as Union pour le Progres et le Renouveau (UPR ) at the election. However, the joint candidacy of the two Fulani politicians exacerbated ethnic conflicts. At the same time alienated the 1998 planned eviction of over one hundred thousand people (mostly Fulani ) from a district of Conakry, the Fulbe from Conté regime. There were violent protests and clashes between the population, opposition and police.

In the parliamentary elections of 2002 UPR Diallo won 20 of 114 seats in parliament and was - after the other major opposition parties boycotted the election - the second strongest force in the Assemblée Nationale. 2003 went UPR leader Diallo before the presidential election on national election tour. He took, among other things against the charge finding that the UPR had a secret agreement signed with the government. This allegation arose in connection with the decision of the EU development assistance to Guinea because of the presence of the opposition in Parliament UPR not withdraw. However, lack of fairness boycotted all major opposition parties, including the UPR, the elections.

Diallo died on 14 March 2004 Pars at the age of 68 years to a cardiac arrest.

Publications

  • Houphouët Boigny, le président paysan. Editions Jeune Afrique, Paris 1980
  • Le Zaire aujourd'hui. Editions Jeune Afrique, Paris 1984
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