#conakry

Samba - Balla et Ses Balladins

1972

So this is where Moussa Doumbia got it from!

Conakry, 28-01-1974

Üdvözletem és csókjaimat küldöm az afrikai Conakry-ból Nektek. Öcséd, sógorod, Laci

Justice Stalled in 2009 Stadium Massacre Proceedings

Col. Claude Pivi, Guinea’s former minister for presidential security and one of the men convicted in a landmark trial for rapes and killings committed in Guinea in 2009, reportedly died in custody in a hospital on January 6, 2026, of natural causes.

On July 31, 2024, a Guinean court issued a verdict for the September 28, 2009 massacre, in which security forces attacked peaceful demonstrators at a stadium in the country’s capital Conakry, killing 150 people and raping scores of women. The judges convicted Guinea’s former self-declared president Moussa Dadis Camara, and seven others, including Pivi, of crimes against humanity with sentences ranging from 10 years to life in prison.

Following Pivi’s death last week, as well as current president Mamady Doumbouya’s decision to pardon and release Dadis Camara from prison in March 2025, five men convicted for their role in the massacre remain in custody today. Camara’s pardon is incompatible with Guinea’s obligations under international law and could amount to a violation of the right of victims to an effective remedy.

A teacher explains molecular construction to a room of students in Conakry, Guinea, 1966.