Guinea detains 16 Sierra Leonean soldiers amid border dispute

Guinea’s military has confirmed the detention of 16 Sierra Leonean soldiers after accusing them of crossing the border and raising their flag on Guinean soil, while Freetown maintains its troops were on its own territory constructing a border post, the latest flare-up in a decades-old territorial dispute.

According to Guinea’s Ministry of National Defense, the soldiers entered the district of Koudaya in the Faranah border region without…