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GUINEA – President Alpha Condé very angry against his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall

The torch is burning between Guinea’s President Alpha Condé and his Senegalese counterpart Macky Sall. The head of the Guinean government is angry with his Senegal neighbour. This Sunday, March 28, 2021, on the sidelines of a visit to an agricultural field in the rural commune in the sub-prefecture of Tormelin, located in the region of Boké in the west of Guinea, Alpha Condé has frontal accused Senegal of serving as a back ground for opponents plotting against its regime. Everyone knows, all those who insult us, all those cries of Guinea will burn, everything is done in Dakar.”, says the Guinean president in sub-sub, local language.
The relationship between Alpha Condé and Macky Sall is not on the path to reconciliation.Indeed, the Guinean head of state is convinced that his Senegalese counterpart did not want the last presidential election to be held in Guinea on 18 October 2020. Worse still, according to Alpha Condé, he wanted the country to sink into chaos. Several people said not to do this election [the last presidential]. How did I know that there was treachery behind it? […] They said that Guinea would burn but Guinea did not burn. Here we are today, the country is at peace,” he said with a smile.
“As God does not sleep, those who wanted Guinea to burn, we all see what is happening at home. This means that God does not sleep.” , he said, referring to the demonstrations that broke out in Senegal following the arrest of Ousmane Sonko, the leader of Pastef-Les Patriotes.
However, Alpha Condé promises better tomorrow to the Guinean people despite the difficult global context. For him, Guinea will soon be among the most powerful countries in Africa, even if, according to him, it will not please his neighbours. I am sure that when Guinea begins to move forward, as I said in the newspaper Jeune Afrique, only Nigeria will be ahead of us in West Africa in a few years. Many of our neighbours don’t like it. They want Guinea to always stay behind, but we will move forward.” , he said to the people of the rural commune of Tormelin.
These words speak volumes about the tense relations between the two heads of state. Moreover, the border between these two countries has been closed since the last presidential election in October 2020 “for security reasons”. Macky Sall did not hide his attachment and support to the Guinean opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo, which no doubt explains the difficult relationship between the two presidents.
Alpha Condé, 82 years old, was re-elected for a third consecutive term as head of Guinea with 59.5% of the vote, according to the official results of the electoral commission published on Saturday 24 October 2020.
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GUINEA – Visit of the African Union, renewed commitment for a successful transition

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Morissanda Kouyaté, received this Sunday, June 1, 2025 in Conakry a delegation from the African Union, on an official visit to Guinea. On this occasion, he reaffirmed the commitment of the transitional authorities to respect the deadlines set for the return to constitutional order, while stressing the historical and central role of Guinea in the construction of the Pan-African project.
« I am very happy. The African Union is at Guinea’s side to accompany and support the vision of the head of state, President Mamadi Doumbouya, in favor of Guinea and Africa, in the political, diplomatic, economic, and cultural fields, declared the head of Guinean diplomacy.
This meeting takes place in a context marked by the preparations for the constitutional referendum scheduled for next September 21.
Morissanda Kouyaté also recalled the founding involvement of Guinea in the creation of the Organization of African Unity, which became the African Union. “This visit materializes the commitment of the Peace and Security Council to accompany Guinea in a dynamic of ambitious political and diplomatic transformation,” he stressed.
The minister indicated that all actions related to the transition are currently funded by the national development budget, while calling for a broader mobilization of the international community. “We have requested a round table, called the Basketfront, to seek support to speed up the process. But this does not mean that we will give up,” he said, reiterating President Doumbouya’s willingness to scrupulously respect the scheduled deadlines.
He finally wanted to reassure on the efforts made to ensure an inclusive electoral process. “We are going through a difficult period, and that is why we want all Guineans to be registered in order to obtain a reliable electoral roll,” concluded Morissanda Kouyaté.
Source: guinee360 / Photo credit: Page Ministry of Foreign Affairs Guinea
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GUINEA – Aliou Bah sentenced to two years for offending President Doumbouya

A court in Conakry on appeal sentenced a Guinean opponent to two years in prison on Wednesday for “offense and defamation” against the junta leader, one of his lawyers told AFP.
Aliou Bah, president of the Liberal Democratic Movement (Model), has been in custody since December 2024. He was sentenced at first instance in January to the same two-year prison term for “offense and defamation” against General Mamadi Doumbouya.
The public prosecutor had requested a five-year sentence on appeal on 22 April 2025.
The Attorney General of the Court of Appeal, Fallou Doumbouya, had considered that the sentence handed down at first instance was “excessively derisory”. At the opening of his appeal trial in late March, Mr. Bah had pleaded not guilty: “I do not acknowledge the facts that are reproached to me,” he said before the court.
According to his defence, Mr. Bah is accused of having, during meetings, “called the religious leaders (Guineans) out of their silence” on the situation in Guinea, and described as “incompetent” the CNRD, the governing body of the junta.
“The trial judgement was confirmed” on Wednesday by the Court of Appeal, which handed down a two-year final sentence against the opponent, Hady Galissa told AFP.
He specified that a consultation of the defence lawyers would decide whether or not to appeal in cassation before the Supreme Court. AFP journalists were prevented from entering the courtroom by the gendarmes.
This conviction of Aliou Bah takes place in a tense climate, marked by the disappearance of several opponents to the military regime and a severe restriction of freedoms in this West African country.
Demonstrations demanding the departure of the military are regularly banned and several media have been closed in the country.
General Doumbouya took power by force in September 2021 after ousting the civilian president, Alpha Condé, who had been in power for more than ten years.
Sources: seneweb
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NIGER – A potential ECOWAS military intervention still on stand-by

On Saturday, 10 September 2023, the Nigerian junta accused France of planning an aggression, explaining that Paris «continues to deploy its forces in several ECOWAS countries». «We do not recognize any legitimacy to the statements of the putschists», replied Emmanuel Macron since the G20 summit in India. Within ECOWAS, the possible military intervention against the perpetrators of the coup d’état at the end of July in Niamey remains an eventuality, even if obviously, we do not hurry.
The boat that had to transport Senegalese troops and others to participate in a possible military intervention against the Nigerien junta should have docked a few days ago at the port of Cotonou. But that is not the case. An interlocutor in the Presidency of the Commission of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) comments: “There are still adjustments to be made.”
In fact, according to our information, the Senegalese troops are ready, but are waiting for the decision of the politicians. Some wonder: has President Macky Sall changed his opinion on the issue?
Ghana has also agreed to provide troops. They are ready, even if observers wonder: this country facing enormous economic difficulties, does it really have the means to finance the departure of its soldiers to the front?
Nigeria remains. President Bola Tinubu, at first, was the most determined to restore constitutional order in Niger by force if necessary. Abuja is the locomotive of a possible military intervention. But for the past few weeks, Nigeria has taken a step forward and then a step back.
Recall that at the end of August, and for the first time since the beginning of the crisis in Niger, the President of Nigeria and current head of ECOWAS evoked the possibility of a transition «if the military power [in place in Niamey] is sincere». Remarks transcribed in a statement on 30 August by the Nigerian Presidency and denied by ECOWAS had to deny the idea of a «transition calendar»And this, while Nigeria is considered from the beginning as one of the engines of a potential military intervention in Niger.
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