Diallo Telli

Diallo Telli
Representative of Guinea at the United Nations
In office
September 1958 – June 1964
Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity
In office
21 July 1964 – 15 June 1972
Preceded byKifle Wodajo
Succeeded byNzo Ekangaki
Minister of Justice of Guinea
In office
21 August 1972 – 18 July 1976
Preceded bySikhé Camara
Succeeded byLansana Diané
Personal details
Born1925
Porédaka, Guinea
DiedFebruary 1977
Camp Boiro, Guinea

Boubacar Diallo Telli (1925 – February 1977) was a Guinean diplomat and politician. He helped found the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and was the second secretary-general of the OAU between 1964 and 1972. After serving as Minister of Justice in Guinea for four years he was executed by starvation by the regime of Ahmed Sékou Touré at Camp Boiro in 1977.[1]