When two erstwhile supporters of the junta the pro-democracy activists Oumar Sylla (aka Foniké Menguè) and Billo Bah disappeared without a trace in July 2024 Kourouma said that he was confident that the justice system would do its work; Guinea was a country of laws...

One of them Abdoul Sacko was found severely tortured near the border with Sierra Leone in February; three others are in jail and the two principal leaders of the Front national pour la défense de la constitution (FNDC) Oumar Sylla (aka Foniké Menguè) and Mamadou Billo Bah have been missing since last July...

Yet in the run-up to Villers-Cotterêts the organisation restored full membership to putschist-governed Guinea – despite a tightening crackdown on human rights and no news of the fate of the democracy activists Oumar Sylla alias Foniké Menguè and Mamadou Billo Bah arbitrarily detained by soldiers in July (Dispatches 30/7/24 Protesters mobilise over fate of democracy activists)...

And then there are the rising choruses for a return to constitutional order from the Front national pour la défense de la constitution (FNDC) of Oumar Sylla alias Foniké Mengué...

Its leaders Oumar Sylla (aka Foniké Menguè) and Ibrahima Diallo remain in jail...

FNDC leader Oumar Sylla and his comrades have declared the movement revived and called on activists to 'prepare for battle'...