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Guinea: Alpha Condé arrested by putschists
President Conde under arrest
Since morning, the district of the presidential palace was the scene of heavy gunfire. This putsch is led by the Special Forces Group, led by Mamady Doumbouya.
Mamady Doumbouya, leader of the coup
Surrounded by soldiers in fatigues, masked and arms in hand, Alpha Condé appears on a sofa in the presidential palace. The Guinean president appears stunned, his shirt half open, in bare feet. "Has any of your hair been touched? Have you been brutalized, Excellency? »Asks a soldier in a video shot in Sékoutoureya. Alpha Condé, 83, seems to be doing well but remains silent. It only took a few hours for the coup plotters to seize the man who has ruled the country for eleven years.
Map of Guinea Conakry
Everything happened really fast. This crazy day in Conakry started around 8am. Heavy gunfire was heard throughout the morning on the outskirts of Sékoutoureya, the presidential palace where the head of state lives. According to photos in circulation, he has since been taken out of the presidential palace.
At midday, a statement from Mamady Doumbouya, a Malinké from the Kankan region, was circulating on social networks. According to information from Jeune Afrique, it is this lieutenant-colonel and his men from the Special Forces Group (GPS), an elite unit of the army both trained and equipped, who are behind the coup.
In a released video, red beret on his head and sunglasses on his nose, surrounded by two soldiers, Mamady Doumbouya announces that “the socio-political and economic situation of the country, the dysfunction of republican institutions, the instrumentalisation of justice, the trampling of the rights of citizens, the financial mismanagement […] have led the republican army to assume its responsibilities vis-à-vis the people of Guinea. " It also announces the dissolution of the Constitution, the government, the institutions and the closing of the borders. Finally, he announces that a "National Committee of Rally and Development, CNRD" has taken power.
Former legionnaire of the French army, Mamady Doumbouya had been recalled to Guinea to become the head of the GPS in 2018. In recent months, his desire to empower the GPS from the Ministry of Defense had aroused mistrust of the power of Conakry . In May, unfounded rumors of his possible arrest were circulating in the Guinean capital. The one who appears today as the leader of the coup plotters called on his "brothers in arms to unity" and to stay in their barracks. This is the major question at this time: will the GPS men be followed by the rest of the army? "The forces loyal to Alpha Condé have not said their last word, but the president is well and truly in the hands of the coup plotters," a person close to the head of state told Jeune Afrique.
Having come to power in 2010, Alpha Condé was re-elected in 2020 for a third term after a controversial revision of the Constitution.
President Conde under arrest
Since morning, the district of the presidential palace was the scene of heavy gunfire. This putsch is led by the Special Forces Group, led by Mamady Doumbouya.
Mamady Doumbouya, leader of the coup
Surrounded by soldiers in fatigues, masked and arms in hand, Alpha Condé appears on a sofa in the presidential palace. The Guinean president appears stunned, his shirt half open, in bare feet. "Has any of your hair been touched? Have you been brutalized, Excellency? »Asks a soldier in a video shot in Sékoutoureya. Alpha Condé, 83, seems to be doing well but remains silent. It only took a few hours for the coup plotters to seize the man who has ruled the country for eleven years.
Map of Guinea Conakry
Everything happened really fast. This crazy day in Conakry started around 8am. Heavy gunfire was heard throughout the morning on the outskirts of Sékoutoureya, the presidential palace where the head of state lives. According to photos in circulation, he has since been taken out of the presidential palace.
At midday, a statement from Mamady Doumbouya, a Malinké from the Kankan region, was circulating on social networks. According to information from Jeune Afrique, it is this lieutenant-colonel and his men from the Special Forces Group (GPS), an elite unit of the army both trained and equipped, who are behind the coup.
In a released video, red beret on his head and sunglasses on his nose, surrounded by two soldiers, Mamady Doumbouya announces that “the socio-political and economic situation of the country, the dysfunction of republican institutions, the instrumentalisation of justice, the trampling of the rights of citizens, the financial mismanagement […] have led the republican army to assume its responsibilities vis-à-vis the people of Guinea. " It also announces the dissolution of the Constitution, the government, the institutions and the closing of the borders. Finally, he announces that a "National Committee of Rally and Development, CNRD" has taken power.
Former legionnaire of the French army, Mamady Doumbouya had been recalled to Guinea to become the head of the GPS in 2018. In recent months, his desire to empower the GPS from the Ministry of Defense had aroused mistrust of the power of Conakry . In May, unfounded rumors of his possible arrest were circulating in the Guinean capital. The one who appears today as the leader of the coup plotters called on his "brothers in arms to unity" and to stay in their barracks. This is the major question at this time: will the GPS men be followed by the rest of the army? "The forces loyal to Alpha Condé have not said their last word, but the president is well and truly in the hands of the coup plotters," a person close to the head of state told Jeune Afrique.
Having come to power in 2010, Alpha Condé was re-elected in 2020 for a third term after a controversial revision of the Constitution.
