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Doumbouya tightens his diplomatic belt

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

GUINEA

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.

The leader of the transition recently tasked his foreign minister with reviewing the performance of Guinea's diplomatic representatives abroad, his aim being to improve the efficiency of the country's embassies. [...] (506 words)

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Alpha Condé
Aminata Koita
Assimi Goita
Bernard Goumou
Mamadi Doumbouya
Mohammed VI
Morissanda Kouyaté
Namory Traore

Who provided Doumbouya with his new presidential jet?

Rumours still abound in Guinea about the aeroplane that received a warm welcome from the military junta when it landed on 20 December in Conakry. The aircraft's owner has not been officially named but clues suggest it belongs to the Indian conglomerate Jindal Steel & Power, which has bases in Africa.

Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya took delivery of the plane at Ahmed-Sékou-Touré airport on 20 December 2022.

GUINEA Mining 31/08/2022

How Doumbouya and Gomou plan to take back control of mines ministry

With Moussa Magassouba's departure from the department now a certainty, the head of state and the prime minister are working to find a replacement. But they intend to continue to oversee the massive Simandou iron project in-person.

GUINEA Politics 29/07/2022

Doumbouya treads fine line with massacre of 28 September trial

The president of the Guinean transition has pledged that the oft-postponed trial relating to the terrible repression of 2009 will finally take place by this September. A decision that contrasts with the favourable treatment reserved by the transitional authorities for Colonel Claude Pivi and former president Moussa Dadis Camara.

GUINEA MOROCCO Diplomacy 06/04/2022

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.

Namory Traoré inspects the Guinean National Gendarmerie.

GUINEA Diplomacy 28/03/2022

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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Aminata Koita
Assimi Goita
Bernard Goumou
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Morissanda Kouyaté
Namory Traore

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