AA / Peter Kum
Guinea’s transitional authorities announced, through an order from the Minister of Territorial Administration and Decentralization, the dissolution of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC).
“Considering that this de facto group, organized in a hierarchical manner, with administrators and violent members, jeopardizing national unity, public peace and living together, does not appear on the list of non-governmental organizations in the Republic of Guinea, nor on the list of association collectives in the Republic of Guinea and even less in the directory of non-governmental organizations approved in the Republic of Guinea (…), the de facto grouping known as the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution is dissolved “, announced in a press release, the transitional government of Guinea.
This announcement of dissolution comes as the citizen movement, created in April 2019, plans new demonstrations in the country on August 17, 2022.
For the moment, the FNDC has decided not to react to this decision.
The FNDC announced on Monday that it “will organize a citizen and peaceful demonstration on Sunday August 14, 2022 in Brussels (Belgium) and on Wednesday August 17, 2022 throughout the national territory of Guinea, in accordance with Articles 20 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 21 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 11 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights, 34 and 8 paragraph 2 of the Guinean Transition Charter”.
The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, a coalition of parties, unions and civil society organizations, was already behind the demonstrations on July 28 and 29 to denounce the “unilateral management of the transition” by the junta. . Prohibited by the authorities, these degenerated and five people were killed.
Following these demonstrations, the Minister of Justice Alphonse Charles Wright threatened to dissolve the FNDC. According to him, the FNDC does not have a “legal existence” in Guinea.
“All organizations that do not have a legal existence, in the days to come. Their activities will be banned as soon as possible, this is particularly the case for the FNDC,” the minister said in a media release.
On August 1, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) called on “the Guinean authorities, the political class and civil society to engage in an inclusive dialogue in order to defuse tension and agree on reasonable timetable and modalities for the peaceful restoration of constitutional order”.
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