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The Supreme Court in Guinea on Sunday upheld the election victory of Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, cementing the junta leader’s transition to a democratically elected president four years after staging a coup in the West Africa...

Junta leader General Mamdi Doumbouya was declared the winner of Guinea’s presidential election according to incomplete results released late on Tuesday.

Guineans voted on Sunday to choose a new president in the country’s first election since a 2021 coup, as analysts say a weakened opposition will result in a likely win for junta leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya.

Guinea’s junta leader submitted his bid Monday to be a candidate for the presidential election in December, contradicting his earlier promise not to run for the office after he led soldiers in sezing power four years ago...

Guineans will hold a presidential election on Dec. 28, its first since the country’s leader Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya took power in a 2021 coup, according to a presidential decree read on state television.

Guinea’s opposition on Wednesday denounced alleged irregularities in a constitutional referendum that could allow the country’s junta leader to run for president.

Over 90% of Guineans voted 'yes' in a constitutional referendum that could allow the leader of the country's junta to run for president, according to provisional results announced Monday evening by the electoral body ove...

Polls opened in Guinea on Sunday for a referendum that could allow the West African country's military leader to run for president.

Guinea is set to vote on Sunday in a referendum on a new constitution that would permit junta leader Mamady Doumbouya to run for president, something he vowed not to do when he seized power four years ago.

Heavy rains caused a landslide that struck homes in a rural community in Guinea, killing at least 11 people, authorities said Thursday. Another 10 people were seriously injured and the death toll was expected to rise.

The organization says journalists, activists and human rights defenders have been especially targeted for disappearance.

Could it be the first step towards a return to civilian rule? Guinea's transitional government presented a draft constitution to general Mamady Doumbouya, the head of the transition, and on national television this week.

Guinea’s military junta has created a new institution that will be responsible for managing elections, including a constitutional referendum in September and the general and presidential elections set for December.

Guinea's military government has taken back 51 mining licences as it steps up efforts to repossess claims or concessions where operations have either not been launched or where it says permits are being underutilised, it...

Guinea’s Prime Minister has announced December 2025 as the new date for national elections, aiming to reassure investors during a speech on Monday at the Africa CEO Forum in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire.

Guinea's military leader has set September 21, 2025, as the date for a constitutional referendum, according to a decree read out on state television on Tuesday evening, in a potential first step towards returning to cons...

The main opposition coalition in Guinea has called for its members to withdraw from the country’s legislative body after the ruling junta missed a deadline for a return to democratic rule.

Parts of Guinea’s capital were on lockdown as civil society and opposition groups protested the ruling junta’s missed deadline to launch a return to democracy, with the U.S. calling for clear timelines to hold long-delay...

An investigative journalist was abducted by men in security forces uniforms in Guinea’s capital, his wife and his lawyer told reporters Wednesday, as the military regime continues to tighten its grip on independent media...

Some 135 people were killed in a crush at a soccer stadium in southeast Guinea on Sunday, a local group of human rights organisations said, sharing an estimated death toll more than twice as high as the official toll of...