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Ex-PM Ibrahima Fofana tools up to defend embezzlement charges

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

Guinea

Transition: 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. [...]

Former Guinean Prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana. © Ibrahima Kassory Fofana/Facebook

After the head of the ousted Alpha Conde's government, along with three other former ministers, was detained earlier this month to face charges of diverting state funds, his supporters got busy preparing his defence, putting together a crack legal team and trying to rally a bevvy of West African heads of state to his cause. [...]

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Transition: what's next after the coup?

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African Union
Alassane Ouattara
Alexandra Kamenskaya
Alpha Conde
Antonio Guterres
Court of Justice
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Faure Gnassingbe
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
Josep Borrell
Macky Sall
Mamadi Doumbouya
Mamadou Ismaila Konate
Michelle Bachelet
Mouvement du Peuple pour le Progres
Naby Youssouf Kiridi Bangoura
Parti Democratique Senegalais
Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinee
Roch Marc Christian Kabore
Seye Ousmane
Skaÿ Communications
Troy Fitrell
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Guinea
Doumbouya swells diplomatic ranks around the globe

Guinea's foreign minister has named several dozen new appointees to join its embassies across Africa, as well as its historic partners outside the continent.

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Guinea
Guinean diplomats irked by Sidibe Fatoumata Kaba's posting as ambassador to the US

Corruption charges failed to prevent the foreign service veteran's appointment, which has not met with universal approval from Guinea's diplomatic corps. Here, we take a closer look at a questionable posting.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 11.01.2023

Guinea
ECOWAS leaders again push for release of Guinea ministers jailed after coup

ECOWAS leaders have since October been calling for the release of Guinean ministers jailed after president Alpha Condé was overthrown in a military coup. They again addressed the issue at the regional organisation's summit on 4 December in Nigeria.

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Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mamadi Doumbouya, Robert Friedland, Paul Henri Damiba, Mahamadou Bonkoungou, Macky Sall

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CongoSassou writes his story.

GuineaRobert Friedland, unofficial adviser to Colonel Doumbouya.

Burkina FasoMahamadou Bonkoungou pays Damiba an evening visit.

Senegal/QatarSall hopes for tête-à-tête with Al Thani.

Free access Politics, Business, Diplomacy 15.11.2022

West Africa
West African leaders clash over UEMOA presidency

Although the Beninese president Patrice Talon is due to take the helm of the West African Economic and Monetary Union, his insistence that his economy minister chair the organisation's council of ministers has led to one of several disputes - and resulted in a special heads of state committee being set up to try to resolve the situation.

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Beninese President Patrice Talon is to become head of the UEMOA.

Guinea
Tension grows between Doumbouya and his prime minister

There have been numerous clashes in recent weeks between junta leader Mamadi Doumbouya and his prime minister, Mohamed Beavogui. By way of a call to order, Doumbouya has sent his government off on a countrywide tour.

Subscribers only Politics 01.06.2022

The President of the Transition, Mamadi Doumbouya, on May 27, 2022.

Guinea
Detained ex-PM Fofana boosts legal team with French lawyers

Guinean ex-prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana, under investigation for embezzlement and human rights violations, has boosted his legal team with Paris lawyers Eric Moutet and Pierre-Henri Bovis.

Subscribers only Politics 09.05.2022

The former Prime Minister of Alpha Condé, Ibrahima Kassory Fofana.

Guinea
Game of bluff between Mamadi Doumbouya and the army

For the past few weeks, the transitional president of Guinea, Col Mamady Doumbouya, has been quietly making changes to further strengthen his authority over Guinea's armed forces. This mix special forces appointments and dismissals elsewhere could trigger the first upset within the junta's security apparatus.

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 07.04.2022

Guinea, Morocco
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.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 06.04.2022

Namory Traoré inspects the Guinean National Gendarmerie.

Guinea
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.

Subscribers only Diplomacy 28.03.2022

Guinea
Alpha Condé's RPG succession to be decided in crucial closed-door meeting

Having appointed Ibrahima Kassory Fofana as interim president of the RPG on 7 March, the party leadership is due to meet again on 10 March as several party officials are challenging the appointment of the former prime minister.

Subscribers only Politics 10.03.2022

Guinea's former prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana.

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Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
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Guinea
Ex-PM Ibrahima Fofana tools up to defend embezzlement charges

Guinea
Doumbouya swells diplomatic ranks around the globe

Guinea
Guinean diplomats irked by Sidibe Fatoumata Kaba's posting as ambassador to the US

Guinea
ECOWAS leaders again push for release of Guinea ministers jailed after coup

Palace Intrigues
Denis Sassou Nguesso, Mamadi Doumbouya, Robert Friedland, Paul Henri Damiba, Mahamadou Bonkoungou, Macky Sall

West Africa
West African leaders clash over UEMOA presidency

Guinea
Tension grows between Doumbouya and his prime minister

Guinea
Detained ex-PM Fofana boosts legal team with French lawyers

Guinea
Game of bluff between Mamadi Doumbouya and the army

Guinea, Morocco
Doumbouya places Alpha Condé's former chief of staff as ambassador to Rabat

Guinea
Junta making slow work of installing post-Condé ambassadorial line-up

Guinea
Alpha Condé's RPG succession to be decided in crucial closed-door meeting