The good news? Guinea’s military junta has released the democracy activists arrested last week, including attorney Thierno Baldé (above), former grantee of the National Endowment for Democracy, and head of the Research Institute on Democracy and Rule of Law.
The bad news? Just weeks after the massacre of democracy advocates in Conakry, the junta remains entrenched in power:
“We don’t have weapons, but we have the people behind us,” Mohamed Diane, executive secretary of the Assembly of Guinean People (RPG), the country’s biggest opposition party, told Reuters. “All we can do is to mobilise and to continue to exert pressure internally and externally.”
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