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Union for the Progress of Guinea

political party in Guinea

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7886481 ↗
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The Union for the Progress of Guinea (UPG; French: Union pour le Progrès de la Guinée) is an opposition political party in Guinea. The UPG was led for years by Jean-Marie Doré, who served as Prime Minister of Guinea from January to December 2010. It held one position in the government of Prime Minister Ahmed Tidiane Souaré, which was appointed on 19 June 2008. The party was dissolved in 2026 by the government of president Mamady Doumbouya.

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This entry incorporates text from “Union for the Progress of Guinea” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.