{"id":202628,"date":"2025-07-17T08:50:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-disappearance-of-fonike-mengue-mamadou-billo-bah-remain-unresolved-12-months-on\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:50:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T06:50:11","slug":"west-africa-disappearance-of-fonike-mengue-mamadou-billo-bah-remain-unresolved-12-months-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-disappearance-of-fonike-mengue-mamadou-billo-bah-remain-unresolved-12-months-on\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: Disappearance of Fonik\u00e9 Mengu\u00e9, Mamadou Billo Bah Remain Unresolved 12 Months On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"64\">Wednesday, July 9, 2025 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/fr\/disparition-oumar-sylla-mamadou-billo-bah-un-an-d%C3%A9j%C3%A0\/a-73207361\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marks a year of the abduction<\/a> of Oumar Sylla alias Fonik\u00e9 Mengu\u00e9, national coordinator of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC); and Mamadou Billo Bah, organiser of the FNDC and coordinator of the Tournament the Page Guinea movement (TLP-Guinea). The abduction occurred while the two were participating in a peaceful campaign denouncing media censorship in Guinea.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">On the said day (July 9, 2024), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/afrique\/article\/2024\/07\/11\/en-guinee-arrestation-de-deux-responsables-d-un-mouvement-oppose-a-la-junte_6248731_3212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the two activists were reportedly arrested<\/a> by elements&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170063.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Guinea\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/guinea\/\">Guinea<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wednesday, July 9, 2025 marks a year of the abduction of Oumar Sylla alias Fonik\u00e9 Mengu\u00e9, national coordinator of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC); and Mamadou Billo Bah, organiser of the FNDC and coordinator of the Tournament the Page Guinea movement (TLP-Guinea). The abduction occurred while the two were participating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":202629,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,22198,51884,8955,51882,1124,31036,51883,7061,257,5153,254,23183,4375],"class_list":["post-202628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bah","tag-billo","tag-disappearance","tag-fonike","tag-guinea-news","tag-mamadou","tag-mengue","tag-months","tag-news","tag-remain","tag-south-africa-today","tag-unresolved","tag-west"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/202628","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=202628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}