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Doumbouya, who seized power in a 2021 coup, faces weak opposition as UN warns of intimidation and restricted freedoms ahead of the vote.<\/em><\/p>\n Guinea<\/a>\u00a0voted on\u00a0Sunday in a\u00a0presidential election<\/a>\u00a0widely expected to give junta leader Mamady Doumbouya a seven-year mandate.<\/p>\n Doumbouya, a former special forces commander,\u00a0seized power in a 2021 coup<\/a>\u00a0and leads a field of nine candidates with no strong challenger.<\/p>\n The United Nations says the run up to the election has been marred by intimidation and…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Doumbouya, who seized power in a 2021 coup, faces weak opposition as UN warns of intimidation and restricted freedoms ahead of the vote. Guinea\u00a0voted on\u00a0Sunday in a\u00a0presidential election\u00a0widely expected to give junta leader Mamady Doumbouya a seven-year mandate. Doumbouya, a former special forces commander,\u00a0seized power in a 2021 coup\u00a0and leads a field of nine candidates […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218444,"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\/00660456:f911015a20852c0895678422a13661e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,40162,3119,6474,4715,1124,28579,7079,257,254,6660],"class_list":["post-218443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-doumbouya","tag-election","tag-expected","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-junta","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00660456:f911015a20852c0895678422a13661e9:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218443","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=218443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218443\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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