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The trial of Guinea's former dictator Moussa Dadis Camara for a 2009 massacre was on Wednesday once again adjourned after several weeks of delays, an AFP correspondent saw.The trial began on September 28, 2022, exactly 13 years after the massacre, but had been suspended since May 29 after lawyers began a boycott, saying they had not been paid for more than eight months.
The leaders from the Economic Community of West African States - minus those of Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso, suspended due to coups - met in New York where they were attending the UN General Assembly.
The 36-month transition, decided at a legislative plenary meeting on Wednesday, is slightly shorter than the 39 months which military junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya had announced.
The West African country's ruling military, which seized power in September, announced the opening of the so-called National Transitional Council on state television on Tuesday evening.
The bloc's leaders issued a statement on Monday saying it remained 'very concerned that three months after the coup d'etat, a timetable for the return of constitutional order is yet to be issued'.