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Africa & World
Defiant junta rejects pressure to let Conde leave Guinea
GUINEA’S military junta and coup leader Mamady Doumbouya said on Friday they will not bow to regional pressure to allow President Alpha Conde, detained since his overthrow on September 5, to leave the country. On Friday Ivory Coast’s President Alassane Ouattara and Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo paid a one-day visit to Conakry to ask coup leader Mamady Doumbouya, a special…
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Africa & World
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo wins re-election
GHANA’S President Nana Akufo-Addo won re-election, securing another four-year mandate to lead Africa’s biggest gold producer. Akufo-Addo got 51.6% of the votes, while his closest rival John Mahama, of the main opposition National Democratic Congress, got 47.4%, the head of the country’s electoral commission, Jean Mensa, tells journalists in Accra. Akufo-Addo campaigned on the need to consolidate the achievements of…
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