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Guinea: Where and in what condition is President Alpha Condé being held?

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Guinea Coup – the Fall of Alpha Condé

By Jeune Afrique

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Posted on September 10, 2021 15:36

Firefox_Screenshot_2021-09-10T11-44-13.752Z © President Alpha Condé, surrounded by the Special Forces soldiers who carried out his “arrest”, on 5 September 2021. DR
President Alpha Condé, surrounded by the Special Forces soldiers who carried out his “arrest”, on 5 September 2021. DR

We exclusively reveal where Mamady Doumbouya’s men have been holding Guinea’s President Alpha Condé since his arrest.

On the afternoon of 5 September, Alpha Condé was sitting in the back of a white 4×4, crossing Conakry with his shirt open. The Guinean president had just been dislodged from the Sekhoutoureya palace by the men of Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, head of the Comité National du Rassemblement et du Développement (CNRD).

Since then, his trail has been lost and he has not reappeared in public.

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