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Vol 66 No 8

Published 18th April 2025


Guinea

Mamady Doumbouya plots a popular mandate

The sudden release of former dictator Camara fits with the junta leader’s plan to silence party politics and fashion a presidential election victory

One is a self-promoted general – Mamady Doumbouya, head of the military junta, the Comité national du rassemblement pour le développement (CNRD), in power since September 2021. The other was an army captain – Moussa Dadis Camara, who participated in a coup in December 2008 and headed the Conseil nationale pour la démocratie et le développement (CNDD) military regime. Both were responsible for more than 300 deaths in two stadiums.

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