Kabiné Komara (born 8 March 1950)Qui est Kabinè Komara? Mamadou Saliou Diallo, Conakry, aminata.com. 30 December 2008. (his given name is also variously reported as Kabinet, Kabineh, Kabinè) Kabinet Komara est nommé premier ministre de Guinée . Kibarou.com, 30 December 2008, 10:27.La junte guinéenne désigne un banquier au poste de Premier ministre. XINHUA, Tuesday 30 December 2008. was Prime Minister of Guinea from 30 December 2008 to 26 January 2010. Until the end of 2008 a director at the African Export-Import Bank in Cairo, Egypt, Komara was announced as the new prime minister in a government radio broadcast on 30 December.Banker Kabine Komara becomes new Guinean PM . AFP. Tuesday 30 December 2008.

Career and personal life Komara was born into a Maninka familyMembers of the Conseil Transitoire de Redressement National: webguinee.net. from the interior area of Upper Guinea and pursued his education in the Guinean capital. In 1973, Komara received a Degree in Management from the école supérieure d'administration in Conakry. In later years he has studied at the Institut supérieur des affaires (ISA) Paris, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and at the American University in Cairo. Komara began his banking career at Crédit Suisse, Zurich, in 1975. Rising in business and government, in 1990 he was appointed to the Guinean CTRN ruling council in charge of Economic Planning & Cooperation. He also served as Assistant Director for Personnel in the Compagnie des Bauxites de Guinée (CBG) kababachir.com, January 2007. and as director of the Alumina Company of Guinea (ACG-Fria) Aluminum works at Fria. Jeune Afrique reported that during that time he had fallen out with President Conté.Cohabitation a Conakry . JEUNE AFRIQUE N° 2408 - DU 4 AU 10 MARS 2007 From 1995 to 2008,Guinée: un banquier nommé Premier ministre, appel à la "compréhension". AFP, 30 December 2008. he was Senior Director for Projects & Administrative Services at the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) in Cairo, an organisation dedicated to improving trade between African nations.afreximbank.com . According to the African Press Agency, Komara is a married father of six.Le banquier Kabinet Komara, nouveau Premier ministre de Guinée. Agence de Presse Africaine. 30 December 2008.

2007 strikes During the 2007 Guinean general strike, the opposition Trades Union leadership named Komara as one of four acceptable candidates to be appointed prime minister, a job later given to Lansana Kouyaté. While there is no indication he had campaigned for the post, he later published an open letter thanking the opposition. He was described at the time by the international press as an "apolitical technocrat".La Guinée va changer de Premier ministre, suspension de la grève. AFP 25 February 2007Guinea's strike to end, Conte cedes on premier. Reuters. 25 Feb 2007

2008 appointment

The National Council for Democracy and Development leadership under self-proclaimed President Camara had promised to choose a civilian prime minister in the week prior to Komara's appointment and after the 2008 Guinean coup d'état. A statement outlined the role of prime minister as: In charge of controlling, coordinating and directing governmental action. He is responsible to the President for the proper functioning of government. With the President, the PM determines the membership of the government, who may also be named by ordnance. He presides over the Council of Ministers in place of the Head of State. The PM names civil service employees and directs government administration through authority delegated by the President of the Republic. The Prime Minister may represent the Head of State at sub-regional, regional, and international meetings. He is responsible for maintaining a political and social dialog."

Early in the morning of 30 December, government radio in Conakry read out a statement naming Komara as the new prime minister of Guinea.Guinée / Le Président de la République nomme un Premier Ministre avec toutes les prérogatives constitutionnelles. Press release of the government of Guinea. CONAKRY, Guinée, 30 décembre 2008/African Press Organization (APO) Kabiné Komara released a statement on the 30th accepting the post,Guinée: Kabinet Komara nommé Premier Ministre, chef du Gouvernement . radio-kanka Tuesday 30 December 2008Nomination d'un chef de gouvernement:"Nous pouvons et devons bâtir une Guinée en bien et en mieux", dixit Kabinet Komara, nouveau premier ministre. Article is the reported full text of public letter to the Guinean people on accepting his appointment as Pime Minister, but is identical to his February 2007 letter. Africaguinee.com, 30 December 2008. after a special flight carried him from Cairo to Conakry, via Paris and Dakar.Arrivée à Conakry par "vol spécial" du nouveau Premier ministre. AFP, 12 December 2008, 14:01

Camara appointed a new government headed by Komara on 14 January 2009. The government was composed of soldiers and technocrats and did not include any political parties., AFP, 15 January 2009. It included 27 ministers and two secretaries of state."Economie et Politique : La liste complète des membres du gouvernement de Kabiné Komara." , Guineenews, 14 January 2009 .

Komara remained in office for about a year. Eventually, as part of a political transition, opposition leader Jean-Marie Doré was appointed to replace him; Doré took office on 26 January 2010, succeeding Komara.Boubacar Diallo and Rukmini Callimachi, "Amid worry, Guinea begins transition to democracy", Associated Press, 26 January 2010.

Coup d'etat of 2021 In October 2021, Kabiné Komara supported the junta which carried out a coup d'état in Guinea.Guinée : Kabiné Komara, l’homme qui murmure à l’oreille de la junte. Jeune Afrique. 1 October 2021

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