US EditionGuinea: Junta Leader, Doumbouya, Runs for President Four Years After Overthrowing Alpha Conde
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Guineans began voting on 28 December 2025 for a presidential election marking the official end of the military transition that began after the coup d'état of September 2021. More than 6.7 million voters are called to the polls to choose from 9 candidates including the president of the transition, General Mamadi Doumbouya.
The polling stations closed on Sunday evening in Guinea after a day of voting marked by relative calm and moderate turnout, reported journalists of the AFP. This presidential election, the first since the return to constitutional order, was scrutinized closely both inside and outside the country. Nearly 6.8 million voters were called to the polls to choose from nine candidates, including General Mamadi Doumbouya, the presidential favourite. The …
Four years ago, Mamadi Doumbouya came to power to defy the one whose close security he managed, Alpha Condé, because he had granted himself a third term of office of which he had no right, he, the historical opponent who had remained 50 years on the banks of the Seine, in Paris, to criticize the Guinean dictatorship led successively by Sékou Touré and Lansana Conté. Alpha Condé, too, succumbed to the charm of dictatorship and the presidency for …
The current leader of the country, General Maddy Doumbouya, is an independent candidate, but with the support of the movement Generation for Modernity and Development (GMD, in French Sign). Among the eight opponents are Faya Millionone, leader of the Liberal Block; Bouna Keïta, candidate of the Guinean People's Commission (RGG in French Sign) and elected in 2020; Abdoulaye Yéro Baldé, leader of the Fronteg, worked in the World Bank, he was Vice-…
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