Senegal and Guinea see high‑profile arrests and corruption trials

In Senegal, a judge in Louga issued six detention orders in the Ndiaga Seck case after investigators linked a network of alleged homosexual contacts to the businessman, with accomplices admitting to providing partners and contacts abroad. The same country’s Haute Cour de Justice also issued an international arrest warrant for former communications minister Moussa Bocar Thiam, who failed to appear before investigators probing alleged mismanagement and possible misappropriation of funds exceeding two billion CFA francs in the Senegal Connect Park digital‑technology project.

In Guinea, the Court of Repression of Economic and Financial Offences (CRIEF) heard the trial of hospital director Soriba Soumah and supplier Ismaël Traoré, accused of diverting more than 12 billion Guinean francs earmarked for equipment and medicines for the Jean Paul II hospital. Prosecutors are seeking up to ten years’ imprisonment for Soumah, five for Traoré, and financial penalties totaling several billion francs, while the defendants maintain they acted in good faith.