New clashes between protesters and security forces in Conakry on Friday left one person dead, according to the Guinean capital’s prosecutor’s office, and four people, according to protest organizers who aimed to denounce the Military Council’s “unilateral management of the transitional phase”.

Prosecutors in Konakrivi said in a statement broadcast on state television that “the capital’s hospital said it had received on Friday the body of a 58-year-old man who was shot dead at his workplace.”

For its part, the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, an important coalition of parties, trade unions and civil society organizations that called for these demonstrations, spoke of “four dead and a large number of bullet wounds, five of whom are between life and death.”

These demonstrations began with a call from the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution to denounce the “unilateral management of the transition” by the Military Council.

The National Alliance for Rotation and Democracy, another coalition that includes parties, movements and associations, as well as the former ruling party, the United People of Guinea, joined on Thursday in calling for the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution to demonstrate on 28 July in Conakry and 4 August in the whole country.

The National Front for the Defense of the Constitution coalition said that “demonstrations on Thursday resulted in the death of one person, but the authorities did not confirm this information.”