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Opposition anger as Guinea’s junta leader is frontrunner to be elected president

27 décembre 2025 à 09:00

Mamady Doumbouya accused of betraying his promise to be the restorer of democracy after leading 2021 coup

In September 2021, a tall, young colonel in the Guinean army announced that he and his comrades had forcibly seized power and toppled the longtime leader Alpha Condé.

“The will of the strongest has always supplanted the law,” Mamady Doumbouya said in a speech, stressing that the soldiers were acting to restore the will of the people.

Freed Nigerian schoolchildren to be reunited with families

The Guardian

Par :Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan

22 décembre 2025 à 13:00

Month-long ordeal ends but no details released on how they regained their freedom or who was behind abduction

A final group of 130 kidnapped Nigerian schoolchildren freed by the government on Sunday are expected to be reunited with their families in the central Niger state on Monday, ending a month-long ordeal that drew global concern.

Last month, unknown gunmen took an estimated 215 schoolchildren and 12 teachers from St Mary’s Catholic school, Papiri community in Niger state, which runs west from the capital, Abuja, to neighbouring Benin.