In a significant declaration, Dansa Kourouma, the Speaker of Guinea’s National Transitional Council (NTC), affirmed the nation’s commitment to safeguarding the contested Solumba border region. This area is at the heart of a territorial disagreement, with Liberia asserting that it lies within its own boundaries. Kourouma’s remarks emerged during a discussion at the ECOWAS Parliament, as reported by Senator Edwin Snowe, who leads the Liberian delegation.
According to Snowe, Kourouma conveyed to the regional assembly that, despite the Guinean delegation’s previous decision to omit the dispute from their formal report, Liberia’s initiative to address the issue elicited a decisive reply. “We will answer you,” Kourouma reportedly asserted. “That land belongs to us, and we will protect it.”
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This escalating diplomatic tension traces back to a summit held in March in Conakry, where leaders from Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone convened to ease rising hostilities surrounding the border conflict. The situation intensified when Guinean troops crossed into Liberia’s northern Lofa County, raised the Guinean flag, and allegedly obstructed a Liberian company from carrying out mining activities along the shared river boundary.
