CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea’s military junta has set Sept. 21 as the date for a long-promised constitutional referendum that would set the west African country on the path of a return to democratic ...

Little more than 19 months after the bloodless coup that brought an end to more ... Francophone Africa's other military leaders, in Mali, Guinea, Burkina Faso and Niger. Oligui Nguema, unlike ...

A former soldier from Gambia has been convicted of charges of torturing suspected backers of a failed coup against the West ...

Guinea's ruling junta has pardoned former military ... Camara, 61, was a virtually unknown army captain when he led the coup. He was convicted along with seven of his military commanders in ...

CONAKRY, March 29 (Reuters) - Guinea's junta leader has pardoned former ... Camara, who seized power in a 2008 coup, was on July 31, 2024, sentenced to 20 years in prison for his role in the ...

A former member of Gambia's military was convicted in federal court Tuesday of torturing five people accused of involvement ...

Guinea is governed by a military charter that serves the transition period following the suspension of the constitution in the aftermath of the coup. Junta leader Col. Mamadi Doumbouya ...

The home of Bubacar Turé, a prominent human rights defender and president of the Guinean League for Human Rights (LGDH), was ...