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Guineans vote for a president as incumbent Mamady Doumbouya seeks to be elected four years after leading a coup.
2025-12-28

Guinea's supreme court publishes a provisional list of nine presidential candidates for the upcoming election, including junta leader Mamady Doumbouya, while excluding former prime minister Lansana Kouyaté on procedural grounds.
2025-11-8

Incumbent Guinean president Mamady Doumbouya submits his candidacy for the election. The election is being held under a new constitution.
2025-11-3

Guinean commando forces forcefully remove former president Moussa Dadis Camara and several other officials from a central prison in Conakry amid gunfire. Camara is later taken back into police custody shortly after the alleged kidnapping attempt.
2023-11-4

The U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control imposes sanctions on former Guinean president Alpha Condé for engaging in political violence during his presidency.
2022-12-9

A Guinea junta spokesman for leader Mamady Doumbouya says that Doumbouya shrugged off threats of economic sanctions by ECOWAS when confronted with them, saying that "as soldiers, their work is in Guinea and there is nothing to freeze in their accounts." Talks are also ongoing to allow ousted president Alpha Condé to leave Guinea, a petition to which the junta has refused permission.
2021-09-18

In response to Guinea's expulsion from the Economic Community of West African States, the military junta freezes all government assets in the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea in order to "preserve the country's interest".
2021-09-10

The military junta led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya announces an indefinite nightly curfew in the country, and says that Guinea's governors will be replaced by regional commanders of the military. The junta also refuses to issue a timeline for the release of deposed President Alpha Condé, saying that the former leader still has "access to medical care and his doctors".
2021-09-6

Guinean President Alpha Condé receives the first dose of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine.
2021-01-17

The Guinea electoral commission reports that the President of Guinea Alpha Conde has won the election with 58 per cent of the vote.
2015-10-17