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The Guinean capital was almost shut down yesterday, Monday, when the call to observe a new "dead city day", to protest against the 25% increase in the price of fuel at the pump, was largely A journalist from the Afp reported:
Traffic was non-existent in the main neighborhoods, with the exception of Kaloum, which houses embassies and ministries, according to the same source. Service stations and shops were also largely closed, said the journalist, who crossed only five vehicles while traveling about ten kilometers in the city.
Conakry "is completely deserted. "Workers preferred to stay at home," said a senior official of the Ministry of Employment on condition of anonymity
The government justifies the increase in the price of fuel, which came into effect on July 1 last, by the rise in world oil prices. It argues that the maintenance of the price of 8,000 Guinean francs (75 cents) has cost the state budget more than 70 million euros in the last nine months and feeds traffic to neighboring countries where the fuel is more expensive.
A meeting on Sunday between representatives of social forces and Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana failed, Afp sources told sources close to the government and society civil. "We sent young people to represent us at this meeting at the Primature, they came back empty-handed, so we maintained our call for a strike," said Abdouramane Sanoh, a leader of the NGO coalition of civil society. the initiative of mobilization. The social forces, which had initially called for a march, then a rally in front of the 28 September Stadium, did not get permission from the governor of Conakry and therefore organized a day "dead city."
AFP
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