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The increasing repression of Guinea’s military junta and shrinking space for dissent risk derailing the promised transition to civilian government while deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis.<\/em><\/p>\n Three members of the Guinean opposition–Oumar Sylla (also known as Fonik\u00e9 Mengu\u00e8), Mamadou Billo Bah, and Mohammed Ciss\u00e9–were arrested at Mengu\u00e8’s home in Conakry on July 9, 2024 and taken to a detention facility on Kissa, an island off Conakry, where they were allegedly tortured<\/a>. While Ciss\u00e9 was…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> The increasing repression of Guinea’s military junta and shrinking space for dissent risk derailing the promised transition to civilian government while deepening the country’s humanitarian crisis. Three members of the Guinean opposition–Oumar Sylla (also known as Fonik\u00e9 Mengu\u00e8), Mamadou Billo Bah, and Mohammed Ciss\u00e9–were arrested at Mengu\u00e8’s home in Conakry on July 9, 2024 and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,4715,1124,257,254,17821,9711],"class_list":["post-178054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stagnant","tag-transition"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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