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Vol 67 No 1

Published 9th January 2026


Guinea

Doumbouya is nervous – despite the Simandou boom and landslide vote

The junta leader sidelined all election challengers – but frustrations among his fellow military officers are growing

The interior ministry awarded General Mamady Doumbouya a landslide in Guinea’s presidential election on 28 December but the junta is tightening control as it presides over the booming mining economy. Doumbouya’s disappearance from public life and fortifications around the presidential palace in Conakry point to cracks in the political settlement. The election, which won the junta leader 86.72% of the vote, formally ended the transition after the 2021 coup.

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