Junta leader General Mamady Doumbouya has promised that 2025 would be "a crucial electoral year" and has announced a constitutional referendum in September.

But no date had yet been given for parliamentary or presidential elections.

"We haven't set a date, but everything is being done to make sure it happens at the end of the year, in December," Bah said.

"The referendum on September 21 and the two major elections, coupled, at the end of the year, in December," he told AFP by telephone.

"Everyone is mobilised for (electoral) registration everywhere, both in the interior of the country and in the capital, because that is what will be decisive. It is through this means that the electoral register will be compiled," Bah said.

Under international pressure, the military leaders who took control in 2021 initially pledged to hold a constitutional referendum and hand power to elected civilians by the end of 2024 but neither happened.