Guinea holds parliamentary and municipal elections; its first since the 2021 coup

Guinea held parliamentary and municipal elections yesterday, its first since the 2021 coup. Nearly seven million voters were reportedly eligible to elect 147 MPs and 342 mayors. President Mamadi Doumbouya's opponents called for a boycott of the process. ECOWAS deployed a 40-member team to observe voting, counting and results as a test of Guinea's democratic transition. For more on this, We spoke to Dr. Tendai Mbanje from the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria and an Election Observer