Guinea junta meets rights activists

Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya

Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, head of the Army’s special forces and coup leader, waves to the crowd as he arrives at the Palace of the People in Conakry on September 6, 2021. PHOTO | FILE 

Hundreds of Guinean rights activists queued up for an audience with the military junta on Wednesday, AFP journalists saw, after the army seized power in a coup this month.

Civil-society leaders were meeting junta members as part of a four-day series of talks intended to pave a return to civilian rule in the West African state.