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The head of Guinea’s junta, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, has appointed former opposition leader Mamadou Oury Bah as the country’s prime minister. The nomination comes a week after the interim president Doumbouya dissolved the government. His first task will be to resolve the current social crisis in the country. Trade unions …

More than 60 soldiers and prison officers have been fired in Guinea, following the escape of former junta leader Moussa Dadis Camara and two others. Capt Camara was recaptured and returned to prison a few hours after being freed from his cell by “heavily armed commandos” early on Saturday. Those …

Alpha Conde lost his wife, Djéné Kaba, the former first lady of Guinea, as a result of an illness, according to reports. A real shock for the former Guinean president, overthrown on September 5, 2021 during a putsch led by the military junta in power. In a statement, the president …

The authorities in Equatorial Guinea on Monday said the country had reported its first outbreak of the Marburg virus, a highly infectious disease in the same family of viruses that cause Ebola. Nine people are suspected to have died from the viral haemorrhagic fever in the country’s western Kie Ntem …

Guinean military leaders rejected a warning issued to them by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to restore civilian rule within two years. ECOWAS rejected the junta’s proposed three-year transition and said it was maintaining economic sanctions against Guinea unless it accelerated its proposed three-year transition to democracy. …

A member of Guinea’s military police has been charged with murder after a student was shot dead earlier this month during a protest about the rising fuel price, the AFP news agency reports, quoting a statement from the public prosecutor. Four other police officers in connection with the alleged crime …

Military leaders in Guinea affirmed that no march will be “authorized as long as the guarantees of supervision are not met”, according to a decree read in state media on Tuesday evening. . In the decree, the transitional government first recalled that “respect for public freedoms has always been its …

Military leaders in Guinea say they will prosecute former President Alpha Condé for murder and other crimes committed during his time in office. A document from Guinea’s public prosecutor says Mr Condé is among 27 former senior officials who are facing a long list of alleged crimes. He faces several …

A court in Guinea will rule on Tuesday on whether a former prime minister and three ex-cabinet members charged with economic crimes will be released on bail. the BBC reports. Ibrahima Fofana and the other top officials of the ousted government of President Alpha Condé were detained on 6 April …

Former Guinean Prime Minister Cellou Dalein Diallo expressed his displeasure against military authorities who decided to destroy his private residence. Military leaders in Guinea said they were targeting irregularly acquired state property and sub-standard buildings. Last month they ordered Mr Diallo to leave the residence, but the former prime minister …