Cellou Dalein Diallo

Diallo studied at the University of Conakry and in Paris, became an inspector of trade in 1976, and worked at the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea from 1985 to 1995. ¹ He joined President Lansana Conté's government in July 1996 and held a succession of portfolios — transport and tourism, infrastructure, public works, and finally fisheries — before Conté appointed him prime minister on 9 December 2004, after the office had stood vacant since François Lonseny Fall's resignation. ¹ In April 2006 a decree that would have greatly increased Diallo's power was announced and then reversed within a day, and on 5 April 2006 he was dismissed as prime minister "for serious misconduct". ¹

On 8 November 2007 the UFDG appointed Diallo its president. ¹ Soldiers searched his home at gunpoint on 1 January 2009 after the military seized power, and on 28 September 2009 he was injured — three ribs reportedly broken — when soldiers fired on the opposition protest in Conakry in which he was taking part. ¹ He placed first in the first round of the 2010 presidential election but lost the runoff to Alpha Condé, stood again in 2015, and in 2020 received about a third of the vote yet declared himself the victor, a claim followed by riots and a period under house arrest. ¹ In September 2021 he supported the putschists who carried out that year's coup. ¹

No article text in any language consulted says anything about Diallo's religion; the English and French infoboxes name Islam, Wikidata carries no religion value, and the Arabic stub is silent, so the museum records his faith as unknown and preserves the infobox reading in the data file. ^{1 2 3} The Arabic stub's lead also carries a death date of 3 March 2019; it is an error — he is living and was active through 2021 — and the museum does not carry it. ^{4 1}

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