{"id":218665,"date":"2025-12-31T15:19:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-junta-leader-declared-winner-of-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:19:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:19:59","slug":"guinea-junta-leader-declared-winner-of-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-junta-leader-declared-winner-of-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea Junta Leader Declared Winner of Presidential Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Mamdi Doumbouya secured almost 87% of the vote, while several opposition figures were either barred from contesting or were in exile. Doumbouya seized power after staging a coup in 2021.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/guinea\/t-68123939\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Guinea&#8217;s<\/a>\u00a0military\u00a0leader Mamdi Doumbouya was declared winner of the presidential election held over the weekend, provisional results showed\u00a0Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Doumbouya, who seized power in a coup in 2021,\u00a0won\u00a086.72% of the vote,\u00a0according to the General Directorate of Elections.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">He was widely\u00a0<a class=\"internal-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/guinea-junta-leader-doumbouya-expected-to-win-election\/a-75318988\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">expected to win&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512310095.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>Mamdi Doumbouya secured almost 87% of the vote, while several opposition figures were either barred from contesting or were in exile. Doumbouya seized power after staging a coup in 2021. Guinea&#8217;s\u00a0military\u00a0leader Mamdi Doumbouya was declared winner of the presidential election held over the weekend, provisional results showed\u00a0Tuesday. Doumbouya, who seized power in a coup in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218666,"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":[258,256,6583,3119,4715,1124,28579,7079,257,6438,254,7361],"class_list":["post-218665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declared","tag-election","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-junta","tag-leader","tag-news","tag-presidential","tag-south-africa-today","tag-winner"],"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\/218665","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=218665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}