The Collective of Guinean Living Forces, comprising major opposition parties and civil society organizations, has formally rejected the country's current institutions and called on "Guinean patriots" to "end the dictatorship."
This declaration was made as Guinean President Mamadi Doumbouya, who came to power through a 2021 coup and was elected president in late 2025, departed for Greece for a vacation. The Collective accuses Mamadi Doumbouya and his associates of governing through terror, repression, violence, and corruption, describing the regime as a dictatorship marked by targeted assassinations, deaths in detention, forced disappearances, abductions, and torture of opinion leaders. They also criticize the suppression of the press and the arbitrary dissolution of numerous political parties.
General Doumbouya was elected president for a seven-year term on December 28, 2025, despite an initial promise to return power to civilians after a transitional period. His movement and allied parties subsequently secured over 80% of parliamentary seats in the May 31 legislative elections. The Collective asserts that the constitutional referendum and subsequent elections were shams designed to consolidate power and legitimize a military coup.
They are calling on all Guinean patriots to unite to end the dictatorship, restore fundamental freedoms, and ensure a return to constitutional order. General Doumbouya has governed Guinea with an iron fist since the 2021 coup, with political partie
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