 He was appointed as Prime Minister by President Conté on 9 February 2007, following a general strike in January that ended with Conté agreeing to appoint a new prime minister who would be head of government.The position of Prime Minister had been vacant since the dismissal of Cellou Dalein Diallo in April 2006; prior to Camara, prime ministers in Guinea had not been heads of government.The appointment of Camara, a member of the ruling Unity and Progress Party (PUP), did not go down well with the opposition, who rebuffed Camara as a man of the old establishment.