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Guinea’s Supreme Court has cleared military ruler General Mamady Doumbouya to contest next month’s presidential election, officially including his name on the provisional list of nine candidates. Doumbouya, who seized …

Guinea’s military junta has suspended three leading opposition parties, including former President Alpha Condé’s Rally of the Guinean People, just weeks before a controversial constitutional referendum. The three-month suspension also …

Mali’s military ruler, General Assimi Goita, has signed a controversial bill into law granting himself a fresh five-year presidential mandate, renewable indefinitely and without an election. The law, approved by …

Burkina Faso’s junta head named former communications minister Rimtalba Jean Emmanuel Ouedraogo as prime minister Saturday, according to a presidential decree, a day after dissolving the government. Ouedraogo served in …