{"id":242325,"date":"2026-08-27T08:01:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-president-sacks-173-soldiers-for-desertion\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:01:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T06:01:34","slug":"guinea-president-sacks-173-soldiers-for-desertion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/guinea\/guinea-president-sacks-173-soldiers-for-desertion\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea President Sacks 173 Soldiers for Desertion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">President Mamadi Doumbouya has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cx2z0j3nyl4o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">dismissed<\/a> 173 military personnel for alleged desertion. This includes Colonel Michel Lamah, a member of the elite Special Forces unit who helped him seize power in the 2021 coup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The dismissals are seen as part of efforts to consolidate Doumbouya&#8217;s control after he broke his pledge to restore civilian rule.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\">He won December&#8217;s presidential election with 87% of the vote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">Since taking power,\u00a0 the country has seen a crackdown on many civil liberties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">His government has&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608270075.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>President Mamadi Doumbouya has dismissed 173 military personnel for alleged desertion. This includes Colonel Michel Lamah, a member of the elite Special Forces unit who helped him seize power in the 2021 coup. The dismissals are seen as part of efforts to consolidate Doumbouya&#8217;s control after he broke his pledge to restore civilian rule. He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242326,"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\/00651302:feb4d230508ad3fb428e839d0cce086e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1118],"tags":[258,256,48393,4715,1124,257,2450,15479,4401,254],"class_list":["post-242325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-guinea","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-desertion","tag-guinea","tag-guinea-news","tag-news","tag-president","tag-sacks","tag-soldiers","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651302:feb4d230508ad3fb428e839d0cce086e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242325","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=242325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}