Guinea

As part of the presidential election scheduled for October 18, a joint mission between diplomats and partners from Guinea left Conakry yesterday, Friday, after spending a few days there. The aim is to try to restore trust between all the actors involved in the electoral process, but also to look closely at the status of the preparations for an inclusive, fair and equitable vote. At the end of their mission, envoys from the UN, the African Union and ECOWAS, despite their smiles, leave Conakry with some concern and not…

Representatives of the United Nations, the African Union and West African countries have been on missions in Conakry since Thursday, October 1st. They welcomed the assurances of President Alpha Condé, a candidate for a controversial third term, to a peaceful election. This visit comes in the middle of the election campaign, the presidential election, which will be held on October 18. The mission has launched vigorous consultations with actors in the Guinean crisis. At the end of an audience with Alpha Condé at the…

This report documents the responsibility of the Security Forces to suppress demonstrations against constitutional reforms. Movements that have killed at least 50 people a year, according to Amnesty International, which shows a number of killings of protesters and arbitrary arrests. This study focuses in particular on the demonstrations that took place in March last year, on the sidelines of the legislative and referendum polls in March last year. According to Amnesty, defense and security forces used firearms illegally in…

The presidential campaign on October 18 opened two weeks ago amid a climate of concern after months of tension caused by the inclusion of the established Alpha Condé for a controversial third term. In Labé then in Dalaba, the convoy of the Prime Minister, campaign director of Condé, Kassory Fofana, was thrown from stone, the government said in a statement. What the UFDG, the main opposition party for Cellou Dalein Diallo, denies. Right in his shoes, Security Minister Albert Damantang Camara says the procession of Prime…

It is in the Guinean capital that a memorial service took place in the morning. A tribute to the 160 victims killed in the bloody attack on opponents gathered at a stadium in the city on September 28, 2009. A killing committed by elements of the Guinean armed forces under Captain Moussa Dadis Camara. as reported from Conakry, Mouctar Bah Severe faces and tight faces, the victims of September 28, 2009 remember the ordeal they went through. "A black Monday, a bloody Monday for me, a Monday of humiliation, a Monday of…

Eleven years after the September 28 massacre, the victims have still not achieved justice despite the government's repeated promises. The United States, France and the European Union "call on the Guinean government to hold a trial as soon as possible". The investigation has been completed since the end of 2017, and 13 defendants are to be tried by the Dixinn court in the first instance in criminal cases. But in the absence of significant progress, Guinea's partners are considering other remedies. Last January, the…

"I got to break and get into theater writers." Author and director Souleymane Bah, 46, will receive the RFI Theater 2020 award for La Cargaison on Sunday 27 September at the Festival des Francophonies, Les Zébrures d'Automne, in Limoges. The text from the Guinean author, exiled in France for four years, invites us to a "macabre stroll" populated by ruined destinies, stranded somewhere. Relaxed and determined at the same time, equipped with an easy opportunity to choose words and speech, during our meeting with the winner,…

NGO Human Rights Watch investigated the violence that shook the city of Nzérékoré in southern Guinea during the double vote on March 22. It takes stock of at least 32 dead, 90 wounded and extensive property damage and also involves the security forces in this tragedy. Polling stations were attacked, places of worship burned down and dozens of dead have done so Nzérékoré mourned in a double vote of March 22nd. HRW believes the defense and security forces "did not do enough" to stop the inter-municipal clashes that erupted…