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Local elections postponed

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    Guinea’s government has postponed local elections from 29 June to December, Interior Minister Moussa Solano announced on Friday. The reason given for the postponement was “budget recession” according to AFP. A media source in Conakry told IRIN the move was reportedly linked to the pressure presidential elections in 1998 and the cost of contributing troops to the Economic Community of West African States Ceasefire Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) had put on the national treasury. Guinea has troops in Sierra Leone and, until recently, Guinea Bissau. The source told IRIN that the Union pour le Progres (UPR), one of the largest opposition forces in the country, had criticised the postponement as illegal.

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