Guinée: enlèvement de la mère d'un opposant, selon sa famille
Cases of abductions and enforced disappearances of dissenting voices and their relatives have multiplied in recent years in Guinea, a country ruled with an iron fist by General Mamadi Doumbouya, who came to power through a coup in 2021 and was elected president in December 2025.
Magnama Sagno, aged around fifty, was abducted late Sunday morning in the village of Moribadou, located near the regional capital Beyla (southeast Guinea), her son Falikou Kourouma dit Zoulouwane, a member of the RPG, the party of ex-president Alpha Condé, overthrown in the 2021 coup, told AFP on Wednesday.
"My mother owns a shop where she sells drinks and food. The kidnappers posed as customers. They forced her into a pickup truck," said Mr. Kourouma, reached by telephone. His information was confirmed by witnesses contacted by AFP.
"She shouldn't have to pay for me. All I'm asking is that she be released," said the opposition figure, who is active on social media and a critic of the government in Guinea.
According to him, the gendarmerie arrived at the scene of the abduction on Sunday. Guinean authorities could not be reached for comment by AFP on Wednesday.
In recent months, several activists, artists and journalists in exile, opposed to the government in power in Guinea, have had their relatives abducted.
In September 2025, the father of journalist Mamoudou Babila Keita was kidnapped. Two children, a nephew and a brother of singer Elie Kamano, suffered the same fate last November. In April, a child of RPG activist Ansou Damaro was also kidnapped.
Finally, in March, the mother and sister of Tibou Kamara, a former minister under Alpha Condé, were kidnapped before being released a few days later. The RPG, like the other major opposition parties, was dissolved by the Guinean authorities in March 2026.
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