{"id":218594,"date":"2025-12-31T03:18:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-ecowas-upbeat-on-guineas-return-to-democratic-rule\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T03:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:18:50","slug":"west-africa-ecowas-upbeat-on-guineas-return-to-democratic-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/west-africa-ecowas-upbeat-on-guineas-return-to-democratic-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"West Africa: ECOWAS Upbeat On Guinea&#8217;s Return to Democratic Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is upbeat about the return of democracy to Guinea as 6.7 million voters lined up on Sunday to elect a new President in the West African country following the September 2021 coup that toppled the democratic order in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">The optimism was expressed in a statement issued by the ECOWAS Commission when a delegation of ECOWAS observers led by Dr Abdoulie Janneh, head of the organisation&#8217;s observation mission, visited several polling stations&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512290005.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>The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is upbeat about the return of democracy to Guinea as 6.7 million voters lined up on Sunday to elect a new President in the West African country following the September 2021 coup that toppled the democratic order in the country. The optimism was expressed in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218595,"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":[258,256,6404,2557,1124,7672,257,6656,7858,254,6772,4375],"class_list":["post-218594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-democratic","tag-ecowas","tag-guinea-news","tag-guineas","tag-news","tag-return","tag-rule","tag-south-africa-today","tag-upbeat","tag-west"],"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\/218594","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=218594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}