Guinea’s military junta is dragging its feet on the transition to democracy. In charge since September 2021, the military has repeatedly delayed plans to hand over power. Now it’s missed yet another ...

On 4 February 2025, the Syndicat des Professionnels de la Presse de Guinée (SPPG) published its annual report on freedom of expression in the Republic of Guinea.The third in a row, the annual report ...

While Sekou Doumbouya, the 15th pick in the NBA Draft a month later, played that day, the scout had Buford sit for the junior game that preceded Doumbouya’s. Advertisement Victor Wembanyama ...

Back in May 2019, a few weeks before that year's NBA draft, Buford was on a scouting trip in France and planning to see a prospect named Sekou Doumbouya. Someone then proposed a different idea.

The story, as Buford tells it, goes like this: Claudio Crippa, an international scout for the Spurs, proposed going to see a youth game before checking out Doumbouya. Buford saw Wembanyama play for ...