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Guinea Coup – the Fall of Alpha Condé

Guinea Coup – the Fall of Alpha Condé

Guinea’s political order has been thrown into chaos by Mamady Doumbouya, a special forces lieutenant-colonel who has seized power.

© Alpha Conde, surrounded by soldiers of the Special Forces who carried out his “arrest”, Sunday, September 5, 2021.

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coup maker

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Coup in Guinea: What we know about the putsch that toppled Alpha Conde A coup in Guinea has toppled President Alpha Condé. Since early in the morning of 5 September, the Guinean presidential palace and its environs saw he...

capture-decran-2021-09-06-a-101930-592×296-1630916425 © Guinean soldiers in the Kaloum district in the center of Conakry, capital of Guinea, on Sept. 5, 2021. CELLOU BINANI/AFP

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push back

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Guinea: International uproar after coup d’état against Alpha Condé The soldiers who instigated a coup against Guinea’s Alpha Condé summoned the outgoing ministers on Monday 6 September, stating that, “any refusal will...

Firefox_Screenshot_2021-09-07T10-03-01.585Z © Lieutenant Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, commander of the Guinean Special Forces, during a military parade in 2018. DR / Dirpa-Guinea

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The ultimate betrayal

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Guinea: Who is Mamady Doumbouya, the man once closest to Alpha Condé? Mamady Doumbouya, leader of the special forces, seized power on 5 September. The former French legionary returned to Guinea barely three years ago and...

Residents cheer on army soldiers after uprising that led to toppling of president Alpha Conde in Guinea © Residents cheer on army soldiers after the uprising that led to the toppling of president Alpha Conde in Kaloum neighbourhood of Conakry, Guinea September 6, 2021 REUTERS/Souleyma e Camara

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post-Condé world

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Guinea: Confiscated passports, no revenge…details from the first meeting On Monday, 24 hours after overthrowing president Alpha Condé, Mamady Doumbouya and his men summoned former government members to a meeting. No one mis...

Army soldiers hold a checkpoint after the uprising that led to the toppling of President Alpha Conde in Kaloum neighbourhood of Conacry © Army soldiers hold a checkpoint after the ousting of President Alpha Condé in the Kaloum neighbourhood of Conakry in Guinea, September 6, 2021. REUTERS/ Souleymane Camara

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Balance of Power

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Guinea’s military junta will strive to keep miners on board Guinea will seek to avoid scaring off miners of its bauxite and iron-ore minerals after the coup which brought Colonel Mamady Doumbouya to power. Mini...

Firefox_Screenshot_2021-09-09T08-14-38.997Z Dmitry Peskov, a Russian diplomat, is President Vladimir Putin’s press secretary. He is pictured here at a press conference in December 2012. Illustration image © www.kremlin.ru/Wikimedia Commons

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price watch

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Guinea: Russia is ‘closely following’ the political situation in Conakry According to Russian government spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, the government is paying particular attention to the impact of Guinea’s political situatio...

Firefox_Screenshot_2021-09-09T15-16-25.575Z Alpha Conde during a campaign meeting in Kissidougou, 12 October 2020 © CAROL VALADE/AFP

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inside track

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Guinea: The secret story behind the fall of President Alpha Condé Following Guinea’s coup d’etat on 5 September led by Mamady Doumbouya, the regional bloc ECOWAS has just announced its suspension. A high-level missi...

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

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President-napping

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Guinea: Where and in what condition is President Alpha Condé being held? We exclusively reveal where Mamady Doumbouya’s men have been holding Guinea’s President Alpha Condé since his arrest.

E-mF4OqXMAA4mvI © Deposed President Alpha Condé remains under arrest. (Twitter/AFP)

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over my dead body

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EXCLUSIVE Guinea: Alpha Condé ‘would rather be killed’ than resign In what state of mind does Guinea’s deposed president find himself? Under what conditions might he hope to be released? An ECOWAS mission was able to ...

Firefox_Screenshot_2021-09-15T14-10-27.817Z Screenshot of the video broadcasted by a.Conakry Live © DR

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A simple misunderstanding?

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Were US soldiers really involved in Guinea’s latest coup? [Fact-checking] After a video was released showing a number of US marines celebrating the fall of Guinea’s President Alpha Condé, rumours started spre...

Guinea Junta © Children walk past a giant poster of Military junta Col. Mamady Doumbouya, on the street in Conakry, Guinea Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/ Sunday Alamba)

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junta transitions

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Guinea: Can Doumbouya lead the country in a peaceful transition? Guinea’s Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya is launching consultations as mining companies fret and fears grow of a new military era in the region.

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