One ‘party state’: Guinea dissolves main opposition parties | Military News

Decree strips events of authorized standing and belongings, as opposition chief calls on Guineans to withstand

Guinea’s authorities has dissolved 40 political events, together with the nation’s three foremost opposition teams, in a transfer critics say marks the ultimate step in direction of a one-party state beneath President Mamady Doumbouya.

The Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralisation issued the decree late on Friday, citing the events’ failure to fulfill their authorized obligations.

Past stripping them of their authorized standing, the order froze their belongings and banned using their names, logos and symbols, with a government-appointed curator assigned to supervise the switch of their holdings.

The three most outstanding events dissolved are the Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG), the Rally of the Guinean Folks (RPG) – the get together of ousted former President Alpha Condé – and the Union of Republican Forces (UFR).

All three had already been suspended final August, weeks earlier than a constitutional referendum that cleared the best way for Doumbouya to face in December’s presidential election.

UFDG chief Cellou Dalein Diallo, talking from exile, accused Doumbouya of dismantling democratic life to entrench his grip on energy. In a video posted to Fb on Sunday, he mentioned the dissolution was a part of a deliberate drive to construct a “party-state” and urged supporters to “rise as one” in opposition to a authorities that had lasted “far too lengthy”.

He mentioned that dialogue and authorized routes had been exhausted, whereas his get together’s communications coordinator went additional, describing the decree as “the ultimate act of a real political farce” geared toward cementing single-party rule.

Ibrahima Diallo, a frontrunner within the pro-democracy Nationwide Entrance for the Defence of the Structure, mentioned the transfer had “formalised a dictatorship” and warned that Guinea was sinking into “profound uncertainty”.

The crackdown is the newest in a sustained marketing campaign in opposition to dissent beneath Doumbouya, who seized energy in a 2021 coup earlier than successful a presidential election in December, a vote from which all main opposition figures have been barred.

Since taking energy, his authorities has shut down media shops, banned protests and arrested or pushed into exile scores of opposition figures and civil society activists.

A number of relations of outstanding dissidents have additionally been kidnapped, and two well-known pro-democracy activists have been lacking since July 2024.

Wave of coups

A wave of coups has introduced army leaders to energy in Africa, throughout a belt stretching from the Atlantic by way of the Sahel area to the Purple Sea since 2020, whereas an tried coup in Benin failed in late 2025.

The event has led to what analysts have described as a “coup belt“.

Madagascar’s and Guinea-Bissau’s armies most just lately eliminated civilian leaders of their respective nations from energy in late 2025, underscoring rising discontent with elected governments.

Though usually carried out with common backing, the army takeovers have additionally seen civil liberties clawed again.

A 2025 examine found that whereas army takeovers have declined globally, the chance of coups in Africa stays comparatively excessive.