Mohamed Béavogui (born 15 August 1953 in

Porédaka Porédaka is a town and sub-prefecture in the Mamou Prefecture in the Mamou Region of Guinea. It is located roughly northeast of Mamou. The Battle of Porédaka took place here on 13 November 1896, during which French colonial troops decisivel ...

) is a

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n diplomat and politician, and the former interim prime minister of Guinea from 6 October 2021 to 17 July 2022.

Biography

Béavogui was born in August 1953 in Porédaka, the son of a diplomat, and the nephew of former Chairperson of the African Union Commission, Diallo Telli. He began studying at

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in 1972. He then earned a master's degree in engineering from the Kalinin Politechnical Institute in the Soviet Union, and a degree in executive management from the

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in the United States. From 1982 to 1986, he worked in Nigeria, before being recruited as a consultant by the

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of the United Nations. In 2001, he was named the Regional Director for West and Central Africa for the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), a post he held until 2011. In October 2011, he became the Director of Partnership and Resource Mobilization and Senior Advisor to the President of IFAD. In 2015, he was named Director General of the African Risk Capacity Group.

Prime minister

On 6 October 2021, a month after the

2021 Guinean coup d'état On 5 September 2021, President of Guinea Alpha Condé was captured by Republic of Guinea Armed Forces, the country's armed forces in a coup d'état after gunfire in the capital, Conakry. Special forces commander Mamady Doumbouya released a broa ...

, he was named transitional prime minister of Guinea by interim president

Mamady Doumbouya Mamady Doumbouya (N'Ko: , born 5 December 1980) is a Guinean military officer serving as the current president of Guinea since 5 September 2021. Doumbouya led a coup d'état on 5 September 2021 that overthrew the previous president, Alpha Cond ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Beavogui, Mohamed 1953 births Living people Guinean Muslims Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry alumni Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University alumni Prime ministers of Guinea 21st-century Guinean politicians People from Porédaka