US EditionGuinea’s Doumbouya is sworn in as president, cementing transition from junta chief to elected leader
Doumbouya formalized his presidency under a new constitution that permits military leaders to run and extends terms to seven years amid economic projects aimed at job creation.
- On Saturday, Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya was sworn in as president in Conakry after he overwhelmingly won last year's presidential election despite an earlier pledge.
- Doumbouya seized power in a 2021 military coup and then ran under a new constitution that revoked the ban on military leaders and extended the presidential mandate.
- The inauguration drew African leaders and representatives of the African Union Commission and ECOWAS Commission in a brand-new stadium in the suburbs of Conakry, with many supporters including Rokiatou Kaba attending.
- Authorities are banking on the Simandou iron ore project, three quarters Chinese-owned, to create thousands of jobs and attract investment in education and health after production began late last year.
- Observers note concerns about democratic norms alongside urgent humanitarian needs as critics accuse Doumbouya of clamping down on opposition in a country where half of the 15 million population faces poverty and food insecurity, according to the World Food Program.
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Guinea swears in junta chief as president
Guinea junta leader Mamady Doumbouya was sworn in as president on Saturday in front of tens of thousands of supporters and several heads of state, following an election victory last month. Doumbouya toppled Guinea’s first freely elected president Alpha Conde in 2021 and has since cracked down on civil liberties and banned protests, while opponents have been arrested, put on trial or driven into exile. The west African country’s Supreme Court…
General Doumbouya was sworn in as president of Guinea on Saturday (Symbolic image - AI Generated Stock Image). General Mamadi Doumbouya was sworn in as president of Guinea on Saturday in Conakry, ending his role as head of the transitional government more than four years after seizing power in a coup. The 41-year-old military officer, who won the December 28 presidential election with 86.72% of the vote, took the oath of office on the new consti…
Morocco’s King represented at Guinean President’s Inauguration – The North Africa Post
King Mohammed VI was represented at the inauguration ceremony of the newly elected President of Guinea, General Mamadi Doumbouya, held this Saturday in Conakry, by Lower House Speaker Rachid Talbi El Alami. At the ceremony, held at Lansana-Conté Stadium, General Mamadi Doumbouya took the oath of office as President of Guinea for a new seven-year […]
Mamadi Doumbouya will be officially invested this Saturday, January 17, 2026 as President of the Democratically Elected Republic, at the end of the presidential election on December 28, for a seven-year term. Inside the General Stadium Lansana Conté in Nongo, where the solemn ceremony, the organization, is taking place... The article Investiture ceremony: what is already observed at the stage of Nongo appeared first on ledjely.
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