Guinea’s President Mamadi Doumbouya, 41, has dismissed more than 170 soldiers for “desertion”, including a colonel who helped him seize power in a coup in 2021. Col Michel Lamah was a member of the Special Forces Group (GFS), the elite army unit which Doumbouya once commanded. When he overthrew President Alpha Condé, Doumbouya said he
Djouma Bah, who was a social sciences student, was reportedly caught using his phone during Guinea’s national baccalaureate on July 15, when he was arrested with other students, also suspected of exam fraud. Two days later, he was found guilty of cheating and sentenced to six months in prison, five of which were suspended. He