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In Guinea Conakry, after the deadly stampede that left at least 56 people dead last Sunday in Nzérékoré, Prime Minister Bah Oury has finally spoken out. In his speech, the head of government announced that the name of the president of the transition, Mamadi Doumbouya, will no longer be associated …

Dozens of people were killed, including several children, during the final of a soccer tournament called Trophée Général Mamadi Doumbouya, in the town of N’Zérékoré, Guinea, on December 1, 2024. Arbitration protests, clashes, tear gas… It was total mayhem in the town of N’Zérékoré on December 1. It was a …

Former Guinean Prime Minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana and two other former ministers of the Alpha Condé regime have been under arrest since April 2022. They are charged with embezzlement of public funds, illicit enrichment, money laundering and complicity. As part of an investigation, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana is due to be …

Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President of Ghana, held an important meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican, with the aim of strengthening diplomatic ties between Ghana and Vatican City. Discussions focused on strengthening the already positive relations between the Holy City and Ghana. The historic meeting took place in the Vatican’s …

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 …