{"id":322956,"date":"2026-01-24T11:47:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:47:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322956"},"modified":"2026-01-24T11:47:29","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T03:47:29","slug":"guinea-african-union-lifts-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=322956","title":{"rendered":"Guinea: African Union lifts sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/879\/87956282.jpg\" alt=\"Former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya won the country's December election\" title=\"Former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya won the country's December election\"\/><figcaption><strong><em>Former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya won the country&#8217;s December election<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, Jan 24 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; After it imposed sanctions on Guinea following the 2021 coup, the African Union has announced it is lifting them.<br><br>It comes after what the Union described as \u2018the successful organisation of the presidential election\u2019 in December. The Union hailed what it referred to as &#8220;the positive steps taken in the implementation of the Political Transition Roadmap in the Republic of Guinea, which culminated in the successful organization of the presidential election on 28 December 2025&#8221;.<br><br>A civil society group urging the return of civilian rule has denounced the election as a &#8220;charade&#8221;, while opposition candidates said the poll was rife with irregularities.<br><br>Former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya was congratulated by the Union for his election win. In front of a crowd of tens of thousands of supporters, Doumbouya was sworn in as president on Saturday.<br><br>It comes after he ousted the country\u2019s first freely elected President, Alpha Cond\u00e9, five years ago.<br><br>Doumbouya has since clamped down on civil liberties and banned demonstrations, with political rivals arrested, put on trial, or forced into exile. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ADDIS ABABA, Jan 24 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; After it imposed sanctions on Guinea following the 2021 coup, the African Union has announced it is lifting them. It comes after what the Union described as \u2018the successful organisation of the presidential election\u2019 in December. The Union hailed what it referred to as &#8220;the positive steps taken in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322956"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=322956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322957,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322956\/revisions\/322957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=322956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=322956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=322956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}