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The military seized power from previous president Alpha Condé in a coup in September 2021. Since then there has been pressure from the regional body ECOWAS to return the country to civilian rule.
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Interim President, Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, announced on December 31, 2021 that a conference would take place and would be about "forgiveness, truth, and also reconciliation". While he did not explain -
Since seizing power in September 2021, Guinea's military junta has increasingly attempted to streamline mining activities and agreements to benefit what leaders have repeatedly dubbed as 'Guinea's interests'.
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Guinea is the world's second-largest producer of bauxite, a main source of aluminum. According to the World Bank, Guinea's mining sector contributes approximately -
A national conference in Burkina Faso has adopted a charter that will allow the junta that seized power in the West African state in January, 2022 to lead a three-year transition. The conference approved the charter, which was later signed by junta leader Lt. Colonel Henri-Paul Damiba on March 1, 2022 after a day-long debate in the capital Ouagadougou.
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Burkina Faso - alongside neighbours Mali and Niger - is struggling to contain attacks by armed militants linked to Al Qaeda and -
Guinea's military president Colonel Mamady Doumbouya has appointed a former diplomat Mohamed Béavogui as prime minister in the transitional government.
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Béavogui, who once served as the UN Assistant Secretary-General, was named on October 6, 2021 through a presidential decree read on state broadcaster RTG.
Col. Mamady Doumbouya, the newly sworn-in Guinean transition coup leader and president has promised to stick to his government's terms of transition -
Weeks after Guinea's president Alpha Condè was deposed, coup-plotters say they will not yield to pressure by the Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) and allow the former leader to leave the country.
ECOWAS chair and Ghanaian president Nana Akufo-Addo led a delegation to Guinea's capital Conakry to convey the bloc's decision to the military junta, and demanded Condè immediate release.
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Leaders from West African countries in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) regional bloc have met in the Ghanaian capital of Accra to discuss their approach towards Guinea after it was suspended following a coup there earlier in September 2021. They decided to freeze bank accounts and introduce travel bans for the junta members and their families, and called on coup leaders to hold elections within six months and release President Alpha Conde from detention. He was ousted on
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The African Union has followed in the footsteps of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and suspended Guinea, as punishment for a military coup in the nation.
Previously, ECOWAS said it "has decided to suspend Guinea from all of its decision-making bodies," Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Alpha Barry said after the leaders from the 15-member bloc discussed the crisis in a video summit.
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Barry said the bloc called on the coup leaders to -
The military leaders who seized power and dissolved Guinea's National Assembly say they will set up a transitional government, Voice of America reports. The details of the promised transition were not immediately clear, but they followed widespread condemnation of the coup from the international community. In a speech the day after his men declared on national television that they had arrested the president
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Health authorities in Guinea have confirmed a case of Marburg virus disease in the southern Gueckedou prefecture. This is the first time Marburg, a highly infectious disease that causes haemorrhagic fever, has been identified in the country, and in West Africa, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. In a press release, WHO Africa says that Marburg, which is in the same family as the virus that causes Ebola, was detected less than two months after Guinea declared an end to an Ebola outbreak.
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National and foreign forces deployed to fight terrorism in the Sahel are increasingly harming civilians. Figures from the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project indicate that security forces caused more civilian fatalities in Mali and Burkina Faso in 2020 than violent extremist groups or communal violence. Things aren't getting any better in 2021. French Operation Barkhane, Chadian contingents of the G5 Sahel Joint Force and other national and international forces in the region, have
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