Guinea says President Doumbouya is healthy despite absence

Guinea's President Mamady Doumbouya, who has been absent from the country for more than two weeks, is in "good health", authorities told local media on Monday, as speculation swirled surrounding his medical fitness.

Doumbouya, 41, left Guinea on February 13 to attend an African Union summit in Addis Ababa but is yet to return to Conakry.

After coming to power in a coup, Doumbouya was elected as president for a seven-year term in December 2025.

For months, he has remained mostly out of the public eye, appearing only once on the campaign trail at a closing rally in which he did not speak, and again to cast his ballot.

'Few days of rest'

In January, he was sworn in before tens of thousands of supporters at a stadium and was seen again in February when he spoke at the AU summit.

His adviser Thierno Mamadou Bah said Doumbouya "is in good health" while promising that he will return to Conakry "in the next few days," according to multiple local media outlets on Monday.

Bah said the president had taken "a few days of rest" on the sidelines of the AU summit, without specifying his whereabouts.

"He took advantage of the chance to undergo a routine medical check-up, as prudent leaders do when they are concerned with maintaining their full capacity to act," Bah said.

"I can state, with the utmost clarity, that the results are reassuring, everything is going very well," he added.