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

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

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. [...]

Published on 09/05/2022 at 06:00 GMT

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African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Agbeyome Kodjo
Alpha Conde
Eric Moutet
Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
Mamadou Ismaila Konate
Ousmane Sèye
Pierre-Henri Bovis
United Nations Human Rights Committee

Guinea
In exile in Turkey, Alpha Conde keeps a hand in politics

The former president of Guinea, who has been living in Istanbul since September, still keeps in close touch with several African heads of state. On top of his traditional allies on the continent, he has also renewed contact with his former adversary Umaro Sissoco Embalo, from Guinea-Bissau.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan meets former president of Guinea Alpha Conde at the Vahdettin Mansion in Istanbul, Turkey on 14 August 2021.

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Ex-PM Ibrahima Fofana tools up to defend embezzlement charges

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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Former Guinean Prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana.

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Family feud continues over the cause of death of former opposition leader Parfait Kolélas

The family of Guy-Brice Parfait Kolélas is still tearing each other apart over how he died - it's the basis of a legal battle in France between the children of the former Congolese opposition leader and his wife.

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Opponent Jean Ping ups the pressure on Ali Bongo

His stand-off with Ali Bongo since the presidential election of 2016 having reached a stalemate, Jean Ping has decided to [...]

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African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
Agbeyome Kodjo
Alpha Conde
Eric Moutet
Guy-Brice Parfait Kolelas
Ibrahima Kassory Fofana
Mamadou Ismaila Konate
Ousmane Sèye
Pierre-Henri Bovis
United Nations Human Rights Committee

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Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

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

Guinea
In exile in Turkey, Alpha Conde keeps a hand in politics

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

Congo
Family feud continues over the cause of death of former opposition leader Parfait Kolélas

Document | Gabon
Opponent Jean Ping ups the pressure on Ali Bongo