{"id":323488,"date":"2026-01-30T11:41:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323488"},"modified":"2026-01-30T11:41:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T03:41:28","slug":"ecowas-lifts-all-sanctions-against-guinea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=323488","title":{"rendered":"ECOWAS lifts all sanctions against Guinea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table aligncenter\"><table><tbody><tr><td><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/384\/38432964.jpg\" width=\"600\" alt=\"Guinea's President, Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, arrives with his wife\"><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><figcaption><strong><em>Guinea&#8217;s President, Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, and his wife<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>ABUJA, Jan 30 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; The West African regional bloc ECOWAS removed all outstanding sanctions imposed against Guinea following the 2021 coup, after last month&#8217;s election of former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya.<br><br>ECOWAS imposed a raft of sanctions on the mineral-rich but poor country after Doumbouya ousted President Alpha Cond\u00e9.<br><br>In February 2024, ECOWAS eased some of those sanctions &#8212; lifting the restrictions on financial transactions with its member institutions.<br><br>Following the &#8220;successful holding&#8221; of a constitutional referendum in September and the presidential election in December, the bloc decided to &#8220;lift, with immediate effect, all residual sanctions against&#8221; Guinea and &#8220;individuals involved&#8221; in the coup, it said in a statement.<br><br>It fully reintegrated Guinea into all ECOWAS decision-making organs and other regional activities, and congratulated Doumbouya on his election.<br><br>Doumbouya was sworn in as president earlier this month before tens of thousands of supporters and several heads of state.<br><br>He toppled Guinea&#8217;s first freely elected president, Cond\u00e9e, in 2021 and has since cracked down on civil liberties and banned protests.<br><br>Political opponents have been arrested, put on trial or driven into exile.<br><br>ECOWAS encouraged Doumbouya &#8220;to pursue policies towards social cohesion, national unity and inclusive prosperity of the Guinean people.&#8221;<br><br>The West African country&#8217;s Supreme Court validated his victory, attributing it to 86.7 percent of the vote. &#8212; NNN-AFRICANEWS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea&#8217;s President, Gen. Mamadi Doumbouya, and his wife ABUJA, Jan 30 (NNN-AFRICANEWS) &#8212; The West African regional bloc ECOWAS removed all outstanding sanctions imposed against Guinea following the 2021 coup, after last month&#8217;s election of former junta leader Mamady Doumbouya. ECOWAS imposed a raft of sanctions on the mineral-rich but poor country after Doumbouya ousted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":323489,"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\/323488"}],"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=323488"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":323490,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323488\/revisions\/323490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/323489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=323488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=323488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=323488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}