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Transition in Guinea: what's next after the coup?

The coup that ousted Alpha Condé on 5 September 2021 in Guinea has ushered in a period of instability, despite the putschists' reassuring words from the start. There is much at stake over the coming months as leaders jostle for power and political alliances take shape, and pressing questions over the mining industry and international partnerships come to the fore. [...]

Former Guinean Prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana. © Ibrahima Kassory Fofana/Facebook

After the head of the ousted Alpha Conde's government, along with three other former ministers, was detained earlier this month to face charges of diverting state funds, his supporters got busy preparing his defence, putting together a crack legal team and trying to rally a bevvy of West African heads of state to his cause. [...] (450 words)

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ECOWAS leaders again push for release of Guinea ministers jailed after coup

ECOWAS leaders have since October been calling for the release of Guinean ministers jailed after president Alpha Condé was overthrown in a military coup. They again addressed the issue at the regional organisation's summit on 4 December in Nigeria.

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Tension grows between Doumbouya and his prime minister

There have been numerous clashes in recent weeks between junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya and his prime minister, Mohamed Beavogui. By way of a call to order, Doumbouya has sent his government off on a countrywide tour.

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Detained ex-PM Fofana boosts legal team with French lawyers

Guinean ex-prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, under investigation for embezzlement and human rights violations, has boosted his legal team with Paris lawyers Eric Moutet and Pierre-Henri Bovis.

The former Prime Minister of Alpha Condé, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana.

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Game of bluff between Mamadi Doumbouya and the army

For the past few weeks, the transitional president of Guinea, Col Mamady Doumbouya, has been quietly making changes to further strengthen his authority over Guinea's armed forces. This mix special forces appointments and dismissals elsewhere could trigger the first upset within the junta's security apparatus.

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Doumbouya places Alpha Condé's former chief of staff as ambassador to Rabat

Sacked by the junta in October 2021, Namory Traoré, Alpha Condé's influential chief of staff from 2013 until the coup d'état, is expected to be appointed Guinea's ambassador to Morocco soon.

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Junta making slow work of installing post-Condé ambassadorial line-up

Although most of Guinea's ambassadors were recalled in early February, none of them has so far returned to Conakry. Interim president Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya is nevertheless pursuing his efforts little by little to change his country's diplomatic line-up abroad.

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Alpha Condé's RPG succession to be decided in crucial closed-door meeting

Having appointed Ibrahima Kassory Fofana as interim president of the RPG on 7 March, the party leadership is due to meet again on 10 March as several party officials are challenging the appointment of the former prime minister.

Guinea's former prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana.

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Game of bluff between Mamadi Doumbouya and the army

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