{"id":212503,"date":"2025-11-04T13:04:41","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guineas-coup-leader-enters-presidential-race\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:04:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T11:04:41","slug":"guineas-coup-leader-enters-presidential-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guineas-coup-leader-enters-presidential-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea&#8217;s Coup Leader Enters Presidential Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Guinea&#8217;s military leader, Mamady Doumbouya, has formally\u00a0 <a class=\"external external-icon\" title=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/3\/guinea-military-government-leader-enters-presidential-race\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2025\/11\/3\/guinea-military-government-leader-enters-presidential-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">submitted<\/a> \u00a0his candidacy for the December 28 presidential election, breaking an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">The military commander has ruled Guinea since a coup in 2021. Doumbouya filed his nomination without making a statement, as thousands of supporters gathered outside, chanting his name. Doumbouya, 40, had promised not to run when he seized power in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">But a new constitution pushed by the military&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511040096.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>Guinea&#8217;s military leader, Mamady Doumbouya, has formally\u00a0 submitted \u00a0his candidacy for the December 28 presidential election, breaking an earlier promise to hand power to a civilian government. The military commander has ruled Guinea since a coup in 2021. Doumbouya filed his nomination without making a statement, as thousands of supporters gathered outside, chanting his name. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212504,"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\/00651463:41f5f761ac6f19cad12c954cfcf106b9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,3835,9519,1124,7672,7079,257,6438,5146,254],"class_list":["post-212503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coup","tag-enters","tag-guinea-news","tag-guineas","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-race","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651463:41f5f761ac6f19cad12c954cfcf106b9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212503","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=212503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}