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The Supreme Court successful Guinea connected Sunday (January 4, 2026) upheld the election triumph of General Mamadi Doumbouya, cementing the junta leader's modulation to a democratically elected president 4 years aft staging a coup successful the West African nation.
Mr. Doumbouya won the country's archetypal predetermination since the 2021 coup aft polling 86.7% of the votes, according to the General Directorate of Elections. His victory, which had been predicted by analysts, was confirmed by the Supreme Court successful the superior Conakry.
“Today, determination are neither winners nor losers. There is lone 1 Guinea, agreed and indivisible,” Mr. Doumbouya said successful a broadcast precocious connected Sunday, calling connected citizens to “build a caller Guinea, a Guinea of peace, justice, shared prosperity, and afloat assumed governmental and economical sovereignty.”
Yero Balde, the runner-up who won 6.59% of the vote, had filed a petition accusing the electoral assemblage of manipulating the results successful Mr. Doumbouya's favor. But authorities said helium withdrew the petition a time earlier the Supreme Court verdict.
The December 28 predetermination was held nether a caller Constitution that revoked a prohibition connected subject leaders moving for bureau and extended the statesmanlike mandate from 5 years to 7 years.
Critics accidental Mr. Doumbouya has clamped down connected governmental opponents and dissent since the 2021 coup, leaving him with nary large absorption among the 8 different candidates successful the race.
The weakened absorption “focused attraction connected Mamadi Doumbouya arsenic the lone cardinal fig susceptible of ensuring the continuity of the state,” said N'Faly Guilavogui, a Guinean governmental analyst. "Guineans are waiting to spot what efforts helium volition marque to guarantee governmental stableness and reconciliation,” Mr. Guilavogui added.
Despite the country's affluent mineral resources including the world's biggest exporter of bauxite, which is utilized to marque aluminum, much than fractional of its 15 cardinal radical are experiencing grounds levels of poorness and nutrient insecurity, according to the World Food Program.
The junta's astir important inaugural has been a mega-mining task astatine Simandou, the world's largest robust ore deposit. The 75 per cent Chinese-owned task began accumulation successful December aft decades of delays.
