In Guinea, Colonel Célestin Bilivogui is dead. Missing for almost a year after his arrest by gendarmes, his body was presented to his wife on Wednesday at the morgue of the Ignace Deen hospital in Conakry. The circumstances of his disappearance and death are not yet known.
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On the morning of Wednesday, September 25, Laouratou Bangoura, one of Colonel Célestin Bilivogui’s wives, received an anonymous call asking her to go to the Almamy Samory Touré military camp, the headquarters (HQ) and seat of the Ministry of National Defense. In a statement given to Guinean media, she explained that she was then taken to the morgue of the Ignace Deen hospital, where the military asked her to identify what she recognized as the body of her husband who disappeared nearly a year ago.
On November 8, 2023, Laouratou Bangoura already recounted the arrest of her husband, 4 days after being discharged from the army following the escape of Moussa Dadis Camara and Claude Pivi from the central prison of Conakry. According to his wife, Célestin Bilivogui was then arrested by a group of gendarmes and taken to a secret location. Until today, she had not received any news from her husband.
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While waiting to know the exact circumstances of his death, several civil society actors, such as the Forum des forces sociales de Guinea (FFSG) and one of the spokespersons of the coalition of the National Alliance for Alternation and Democracy expressed concern about the climate of violence and impunity that reigns in Guinea, while other opponents, such as Foniké Mengué and Bilo Bah, of the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution (FNDC) are also missing after their arrest in July.