Viewfinder: Local Elections Spark Protests in Guinea

Pacific Standard Staff
February 7, 2018
Riot police get ready to disperse people demonstrating to denounce the results of the local elections, on February 6th, 2018, in Conakry, Guinea.
Riot police get ready to disperse people demonstrating to denounce the results of the local elections, on February 6th, 2018, in Conakry, Guinea. Guinean opposition leaders denounced the West African country's long-delayed local elections as fraudulent, citing vote rigging in polling stations across the country.

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