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Africa News of Saturday, 18 April 2020

Source: www.mynigeria.com

INEC reacts to death of Guinea's electoral boss who died of COVID-19

Mamadou Salif Kebe Mamadou Salif Kebe

Chairman, Nigeria’s Electoral Commission, Prof Mahmood Yakubu, has reacted to the death of Mamadou Salif Kébé, Guinea's electoral Chief who passed on after complications related to the coronavirus.

Yakubu described Kébé's passing “as most unfortunate and a great loss to Guinea and West Africa”.

The deceased was said to have contracted the infection from one of the African civil society electoral experts, who were in Guinea for the country’s national referendum and legislative elections held on March 22, 2020.

A statement issued in Abuja on Saturday by the spokesman, ECOWAS Network of Electoral Commissions, Paul Ejime, said Kébé was hospitalised for a few days and died in Conakry on Friday, April 17.

“Seven of the visitors, who are still stranded in Conakry because of the coronavirus pandemic shutdown, are reported to have also tested positive for COVID-19,” Ejime said.

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