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A Paris court is due to consider a legal complaint against junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya over the disappearance of Sylla and Mamadou Billo Bah filed by their wives...
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For Simandou's blocks 3 & 4 two of the three key agreements are in place: approval of the mining convention by the junta under General Mamady Doumbouya; and confirmation by the directors of Rio Tinto they they will release $6...
THE GENERALS TIE THEIR FORTUNES TO SIMANDOU General Mamady Doumbouya's junta Comité national du rassemblement et du développement (CNRD) which took power in September 2021 regards the Simandou project as its legacy (AC Vol 62 No 18 Sidelined legionnaire grabs the reins)...
The summit's final communiqué announced an end to the remaining economic and financial sanctions on Guinea – whose (recently promoted) military ruler General Mamady Doumbouya has kept more cordial relations with Ecowas and not threatened withdrawal – and the lifting of restrictions on the recruitment of Malian citizens for jobs in the bloc's institutions...
This provided a ready-made excuse for Colonel Mamady Doumbouya to seize power the following year in 2021 supposedly in the name of restoring democracy...
Guinea's transitional leader Mamady Doumbouya has eschewed the rejection of collaboration with France – officials in Conakry praise the Agence française de développement as one of the country's most effective partners – and sought to maintain a broad spread of international partnerships...
The Comité national pour le rassemblement et le développement (CNRD) of Col Mamady Doumbouya whose tightly-knit 600-strong Special Forces is the heart of the regime is looking at the year ahead with confidence...
The arrival of Lt-Col Mamady Doumbouya in a coup d'état last September and his subsequent purge of the army top brass have made this trial possible...
It was no coincidence that the Front nationale pour la défense de la constitution chose 5 September the day of the first anniversary of the coup that toppled President Alpha Condé to stage another demonstration against the military junta of Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya...
Regional leaders hope the deals with Mali and Burkina Faso might nudge the Guinean putchist Colonel Mamady Doumbouya – who seized power in September last year – into a climb-down...
Guinea's military government led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya since a putsch last September suspended construction work on the giant Simandou iron ore concession on 4 July after the companies working in the area failed to agree on a joint venture...