“Serious decisions”: West African leaders to hold summit on Guinea coup
Dakar, SenegalReuters West African leaders will meet on Thursday to decide how to respond to the coup in Guinea and how to pressure the junta leaders to return the country to constitutional rule, Ghana’s foreign minister said. The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has condemned the putsch that overthrew President Alpha Conde, […]
“Unattainable power”: the frustrations that drove Guinea’s coup leader
Dakar, SenegalReuters In 2016, Mamady Doumbouya, a commander in the Guinean army, asked his superiors if he could have ammunition to train his troops in marksmanship. He never received it, he said, because they feared he would use the rounds to launch a coup. Five years on, Doumbouya did just that. Prime Minister of Guinea […]
Elite Guinea army unit says it has toppled President
Conakry, GuineaReuters Special forces soldiers appeared on Sunday to have ousted Guinea’s long-serving President, telling the nation they had dissolved its government and constitution and closed its land and air borders. As the United Nations condemned any takeover by force and the West African region’s economic bloc threatened reprisals, the elite army unit’s head, Mamady […]