Sierra Leone News

Umaru Musa Yar’Adua of Nigeria, has appointed President Blaise Compaore of Burkina

Faso as facilitator on the Guinean crisis for ECOWAS and the International Contact Group

on Guinea (ICG-G).

The appointment is sequel to the request of the ICG-G during its last meeting held on 22nd

September 2009 in New York where it reviewed the situation in Guinea as well as Cote

d’Ivoire, Guinea Bissau, Liberia and Sierra Leone.

It is expected that President Compaore will visit Guinea within the next couple of days to

begin his mission.

The last ICG-G meeting was attended by representatives of the African Union, ECOWAS,

the United Nations, the European Union, Mano River Union, CEN-SAD, the Organization

of Islamic Conference and the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie.

There were also representatives of the World Bank, Libya, which is a non permanent

member of the UN Security Council, Nigeria, Germany, Spain, Japan and Permanent

members of the UN Security Council, namely the United States of America, France, the

United Kingdom and Russia.