Guinea’s Efforts to Ban Protests Undermines Rights

Expand Anti-riot police clash with Guinean opposition supporters in Conakry on March 22, 2018. © 2018 CELLOU BINANI/AFP/Getty Images This might be the calm before the storm in Guinea. President Alpha Condé, first elected in 2010, will reach the end of his second term in 2020. Although Guinea’s 2010 constitution stipulates a two-term limit, Condé’s supporters last month hung a banner from the National Assembly encouraging him to revise the constitution and seek a third term; many civil society activists and opposition politicians believe that he will do just that. Guinea’s opposition parties…

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