The election on which Doumbouya rode to shed his military garb was the first in Guinea since he toppled President Alpha Condé four years earlier. He had justified that military takeover on alleged ...

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Central African leaders ordered urgent fiscal and monetary measures to steady the region’s weakening economies on Thursday, including repatriation of state assets and export revenues held abroad.

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Day and night, the soldiers were always there. Amid the palm trees and banana groves of a verdant suburb in Uganda’s capital, ...

Doumbouya was declared victor in the West African country’s first election since he led the 2021 military takeover.

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Equatorial Guinea has officially designated Ciudad de la Paz as its new capital following the publication of a presidential decree on Saturday, January 3, marking a historic shift from Malabo, the ...

Equatorial Guinea is embarking on a structural transition with the official proclamation of Ciudad de la Paz, capital of the Djibloho province in the eastern part of the country, as the new capital of ...

CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — The Supreme Court in Guinea on Sunday upheld the election victory of Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, cementing the junta leader's transition to a democratically elected president four ...