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Sep
16
2021
By The African Mirror
West African leaders to hold summit on Guinea coup

West African leaders to hold summit on Guinea coup

NEWS
COOPER INVEEN WEST African leaders will meet on Thursday to decide how to respond to the coup in Guinea and how to pressure the junta leaders to return the country to constitutional rule, Ghana's foreign minister said. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned the putsch that overthrew President Alpha Conde, the third coup in West and Central Africa since April. The bloc suspended Guinea from the decision-making bodies of the organisation last week and sent a mission to meet the coup leaders on Friday. Ghanaian Foreign Minister Shirley Ayorkor Botchway, who chairs the ECOWAS council…
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Sep
15
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinea junta starts transition talks

Guinea junta starts transition talks

NEWS
The junta that ousted Guinea's President Alpha Conde last week has started a week-long consultation with political, religious, and business leaders that it says will lead to the formation of a transitional government. The dialogue, which began with a meeting with leaders of the main political parties on Tuesday, is expected to lay out the framework of a promised government of national unity that would lead Guinea back to constitutional order. The talks are expected to define the duration of the transition, what political and institutional reforms are needed before elections, and who will lead the transition. The coup led…
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Sep
14
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinea junta starts transitional government talks following coup

Guinea junta starts transitional government talks following coup

NEWS
The junta that ousted Guinea's President Alpha Conde last week has started a week-long consultation with political, religious, and business leaders that it says will lead to the formation of a transitional government. The dialogue, which began with a meeting with leaders of the main political parties on Tuesday, is expected to lay out the framework of a promised government of national unity that would lead Guinea back to constitutional order. The talks are expected to define the duration of the transition, what political and institutional reforms are needed before elections, and who will lead the transition. The coup led…
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Sep
10
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinea junta freezes govt accounts

Guinea junta freezes govt accounts

NEWS
SALIOU SAMB GUINEA'S military junta, which seized power over the weekend, has ordered the central bank and other banks to freeze all government accounts. On Sunday a group of special forces soldiers said they ousted President Alpha Conde over concerns about poverty and endemic corruption. The banking freeze was aimed at "securing state assets", a junta spokesman announced on the national broadcaster. "This includes public administrative and commercial establishments in all ministries and the presidency, presidential programmes and projects, members of the outgoing government as well as senior officials and administrators of state financial institutions," the spokesman said. A mining…
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Sep
09
2021
By The African Mirror
West African regional bloc suspends Guinea after coup

West African regional bloc suspends Guinea after coup

NEWS
SALIOU SAMB WEST Africa's main political and economic bloc suspended Guinea's membership on Wednesday following a weekend military coup that ousted President Alpha Conde and dealt the latest in a flurry of setbacks to democracy in the region. During a virtual summit, leaders from the 15-member Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) demanded a return to the constitutional order and Conde's immediate release, and also agreed to send a high-level mission to Guinea as soon as Thursday, said Burkina Faso's Foreign Minister Alpha Barry. "At the end of that mission, ECOWAS should be able to re-examine its position," Barry…
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Sep
07
2021
By The African Mirror
Guinean political prisoners freed, amid talks

Guinean political prisoners freed, amid talks

NEWS
SALIOU SAMB GUINEA'S military leaders have freed scores of political prisoners before a meeting of West African leaders to discuss their response to Sunday's coup that ousted President Alpha Conde. At least 80 political prisoners detained by Conde were released on Tuesday evening. Some had campaigned against his attempt to stay in power for a third term after altering the constitution to permit it, a move opponents said was illegal. West African countries have threatened sanctions following Conde's overthrow and a regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), was due to convene a virtual summit on Wednesday.…
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Sep
06
2021
By The African Mirror
‘Unattainable power’: the frustrations that drove Guinea’s coup leader

‘Unattainable power’: the frustrations that drove Guinea’s coup leader

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DAVID LEWIS, EDWARD McALLISTER and SALIOU SAMB IN 2016, Mamady Doumbouya, a commander in the Guinean army, asked his superiors if he could have ammunition to train his troops in marksmanship. He never received it, he said, because they feared he would use the rounds to launch a coup. Five years on, Doumbouya did just that. On Sunday, after hours of gunfire in the capital Conakry, the 41-year-old appeared in an online video in army fatigues and wrap-around sunglasses to declare President Alpha Conde ousted and the government dissolved. "We call on our brothers in arms to unite in order…
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