Guinea junta
29 Oct
Guinea's ruling junta has placed the three main parties under observation and dissolved 53 others in what it termed a major political "clean up", according to an official document seen by AFP Tuesday. The results of the "political parties' evaluation" have been published two months before the junta's deadline to hand power back to civilians,…
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The crackdown on demonstrations in Guinea has left at least 47 people dead, most of them young people, since the military seized power in September 2021, Amnesty International said in a report published Wednesday. The West African nation's ruling junta banned all demonstrations in 2022 and has arrested a number of opposition leaders, civil society…
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