Associated Country Guinea

GNDEM (Global Network of Domestic Election Monitors)

GNDEM is a global umbrella network of domestic election-monitoring organizations. While not specific to Guinea alone, GNDEM includes member organizations from many countries and helps promote best practices, nonpartisan election monitoring, and peer learning. Membership of GNDEM helps domestic Guinean…

Direction Générale des Élections (DGE)

The DGE is the main new electoral management body in Guinea, created by decree in 2025. It is responsible for organising elections (both elections and referendums), maintaining and managing the electoral register, and guaranteeing aspects of electoral fairness. The DGE…

Guinea

Guinea became the first of France’s sub-Saharan African colonies to gain full independence on October 2, 1958, rejecting membership in France’s "French Community" with Ahmed Sékou Touré becoming its first president. Touré later established a one-party state under the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) that persisted until his death in 1984