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Guinean information forces neutralised an equipped radical successful the capital, they said, which had "subversive intentions threatening nationalist security", according to an authoritative statement, a time earlier the state holds elections.
The West African country's Presidential predetermination is acceptable to instrumentality spot connected Sunday (December 28, 2025) with 9 candidates participating, including junta person General Mamady Doumbouya.
Early connected Saturday "based connected reliable intelligence, information services conducted a targeted cognition successful a compound successful the suburbs of Conakry wherever an equipped radical was present," according to the connection from the Operational Command Post for Internal Security, a associated portion composed of police, soldiers and customs officers.
"This cognition allowed for the implicit neutralisation of the radical and the apprehension of the individuals progressive aft respective exchanges of gunfire," the connection said, without providing further details oregon mentioning the election.
Residents told AFP that gunfire erupted connected Friday nighttime and aboriginal Saturday successful Sonfonia, a neighbourhood located astir 15 km (9 miles) from downtown Conakry.
They said the occurrence took spot adjacent a mosque that was inactive nether operation and astatine slightest 1 house, leaving slug marks connected the walls of the 2 buildings, and "traces of blood" successful the vicinity.
Since its 1958 independence, Guinea has had a analyzable past of subject and authoritarian rule. Guinea is affluent successful minerals, but much than fractional of its inhabitants unrecorded beneath the poorness line, according to World Bank figures for 2024.
Sunday's predetermination is intended to reason a four-year modulation play since the subject seized powerfulness successful September 2021.
Doumbouya has cracked down connected civilian liberties, and the junta has banned protests since 2022. Many opponents person been arrested, enactment connected proceedings oregon driven to exile.
