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GUINEA

05/23/2023

Anti-government demonstrations initially triggered by high fuel prices, gaining momentum as the government attempts to suppress them.

11/03/2022

Junta calls for the investigation of Alpha Conde and many of his associates for assassination and corruption.

10/24/2022

Junta agrees to restore civilian rule within two years.

10/24/2022

Baldé and seven other opposition leaders are detained and questioned.

10/21/2022

Violence during protests lead by the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) against the junta. The FNDC was officially dissolved by the junta in 8/22.

10/18/2022

Opposition leader Cellou Baldé is arrested and taken to an unknown location.

09/12/2022

9/12/22. US institutes sanctions against former President Condé, freezing his assets.

07/05/2022

Three members of the opposition group National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, including its national coordinator Fonike Mangue, also known as Ourmar Sylla.

07/04/2022

ECOWAS gives Guinea an additional month to present an acceptable plan for transition.

06/28/2022

Prime Minister Mohamed Béavogui meets with political parties to ease tensions after the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC) suspends its call for a demonstration that was due to be the first major protest rally under the ruling junta.

06/13/2022

Opposition leader Cellou Diallo expected to appear before the financial crimes court on charges of fraud and self-enrichment stemming from the sale of the national airline two decades ago when he was transportation minister. A spokesman for him says he has not received a court summons. He has been out of the country since March.

05/05/2022

Court orders prosecution of former president Alpha Condé on charges of murder, abduction, torture, illegal detentions, and others.

03/22/2022

National reconciliation conference organized by ruling junta opens.

01/01/2022

US removes Ethiopia, Guinea, and Mali from duty-free trade program over those countries alleged human rights abuses.

11/08/2021

ECOWAS imposes sanctions on coup leaders in Mali and Guinea.

10/01/2021

Junta leader Mamady Doumbouya is named interim president.

09/29/2021

Junta issues a “transitional charter,” a list of tasks to be completed to return the country to civilian rule. They include a new constitution and free and fair elections. It has also barred its members from running in elections.

09/11/2021

Opposition leader Sidya Touré, leader of the Union of Republican Forces (UFR) party, returns. The junta says that it will begin meeting with political and civil leaders soon.

09/08/2021

Coup releases some opposition prisoners.

09/07/2021

Coup solidifies power by installing military commanders as governors in all eight regions of Guinea and says it will release political prisoners.

09/06/2021

Opposition leader Cellou Diallo said he was willing to work with the junta.

09/05/2021

Coup deposes Condé

Soldiers take Condé prisoner and declare the government dissolved, the constitution suspended, and the borders closed. Army Col. Mamadi Doumbouya announces the coup. There are some celebratory assemblages.

11/17/2020

Five opposition leaders charged with disrupting public order.

11/12/2020

Three members of the opposition are questioned by the police.

10/24/2020

Condé reelected

Election commission says Condé has won the election with 59.5% of the vote. The opposition disputes the outcome.

09/07/2020

Former premier and leading opposition leader Cellou Dalein Diallo, head of the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), announces candidacy for president.

08/02/2020

Ousmane Kaba of the Party of Democrats for Hope (Pade) and with support in the Rally of the Guinean People party, announces he will run for president. Though technically an opposition candidate, he is a close associate of Condé. The National Front for the Defence of the Constitution (FNDC), made up of the main opposition parties and members of civil society, has called for more protests against the current government. The ruling party will declare its candidate at its convention 8/5-8/6.

07/20/2020

Protests by the National Front for the Defence of the Constitution resume in in the capital after the COVID-19 shutdown, resulting in injuries and violence.

04/22/2020

Condé supporter Amadou Damaro Camara is elected speaker of parliament, cementing the president’s control of the legislature.

03/28/2020

Constitutional referendum approved

Election commission says that constitutional referendum passes with 92% in favor.

03/20/2020

Government says it will go on with the 3/21 referendum despite COVID-19 pandemic and planned interruption in internet and telephone lines for maintenance of undersea cables.

03/13/2020

Guinea confirms its first case of COVID-19.

03/12/2020

Government again postpones constitutional referendum.

02/28/2020

Condé postpones constitutional referendum and legislative elections set for 3/1.

02/05/2020

Government says it will go ahead with constitutional reform referendum on 3/1/20, with the legislative elections, which the opposition says it will boycott. The opposition calls the reform a “constitutional coup.”

01/07/2020

New anti-government protests.

12/19/2019

Condé announces draft of constitutional change that ould extend the president’s term to six years instead of five years for a limit of two terms. The opposition says the change will allow Condé to run for another term, his third.

12/19/2019

11/11/2019

Conde replaces security minister.

11/07/2019

New protests in Conakry break out during a funeral for those killed in previous protests.

11/07/2019

New protests in Conakry break out during a funeral for those killed in previous protests.

11/07/2019

New protests in Conakry break out during a funeral for those killed in previous protests.

10/24/2019

Peaceful but large protest march in Conakry.

10/22/2019

Opposition leaders of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (NFDC), an umbrella group of protestors, jailed for protests.

09/05/2019

Consultations on changes to the constitution begin. Opposition groups fear that Conde will attempt to eliminate two-term limit on the presidency.

08/31/2019

There are rumors that Conde will attempt to end term limits for president so that he can remain in power.

01/10/2019

Amid warnings of civil unrest and strikes in the mining sector, Conde replaces thirteen of thirty-three ministers. French authorities have charged that industrialist Vincent Bollore’s conglomerate contributed to Conde campaign in return for a concession on the Conakry main port. Though a French company had won a competition for the port, Conde cancelled that contract in 2011 and the contract was awarded to Bollore. There are also rumors that Conde will attempt to change the constitution to allow him to run for a third term in 2020.

10/31/2018

Police stop protests by opposition, led by former prime minister Celleu Dalein Diallo, and one person is killed.

10/31/2018

Police stop protests by opposition, led by former prime minister Celleu Dalein Diallo, and one person is killed.

10/23/2018

Opposition stages protests about elections 2/18, a day after school children protest closed schools.

04/25/2018

French court charges that Groupe Bollore, owned by billionaire Vincent Bollore, gave financial concessions to the campaigns of Alpha Conde of Guinea and Faure Gnassingbe in return for business concessions.