This profile mirrors and is kept in sync with the Mali, Niger & Guinea entry in the main guide's case studies.
Overview
Military juntas converted 2020–2023 coups into open-ended rule, granting themselves renewable mandates and, in Guinea's case, a managed election in December 2025; weeks before that vote, the junta dissolved 40 political parties, including every major opposition party, stripping them of legal status rather than merely barring individual candidates.
Analytical lens
Concepts on this wiki that help explain this case: Democratic Backsliding and Executive Aggrandizement, Regime Types: How Democracy Is Measured.