Transitional authorities in junta-led Guinea have appointed one-time opposition leader and economist Mamadou Oury Bah to the role of prime minister, according to a decree read on national television on Tuesday. The political veteran faces a challenging task setting up a government amid an indefinite general strike launched this week over deep economic hardships and the military authorities' allegedly repressive policies.Television footage showed Bah taking the oath of office in front of interim
Mamadou Oury Bah, the former Guinean opposition leader, has been named prime minister by the country's military junta, a week after it unexpectedly dis .