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Opposition parties have boycotted the vote amid a wider crackdown on dissent in Guinea. The proposed new constitution would extend presidential terms and allow members of the military to run for office.<\/em><\/p>\n Polls opened in\u00a0Guinea<\/a>\u00a0on Sunday for a referendum that could allow the West African country’s military leader to run for president.<\/p>\n General Mamady Doumbouya seized power in a coup in 2021 and\u00a0vowed to return the country to civilian rule<\/a>\u00a0by the end of last year.<\/p>\n Although the draft constitution…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Opposition parties have boycotted the vote amid a wider crackdown on dissent in Guinea. The proposed new constitution would extend presidential terms and allow members of the military to run for office. Polls opened in\u00a0Guinea\u00a0on Sunday for a referendum that could allow the West African country’s military leader to run for president. General Mamady Doumbouya […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207906,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661503:ad9fdbe32c574553f6a560830cee76c1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,3994,11087,4715,1124,6275,257,9345,254],"class_list":["post-207905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-constitution","tag-controversial","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-holds","tag-news","tag-referendum","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00661503:ad9fdbe32c574553f6a560830cee76c1:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207905","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=207905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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