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Video: Crowds Celebrate in Guinea After Military Official Stages Coup

Residents cheered as troops moved through Guinea’s capital, Conakry, after the head of the country’s special forces claimed to have seized power from its president. If the coup succeeds, it will be the third violent transfer of power in a West African nation in the past five months.

www.nytimes.com

Military ousts President Alpha Conde in Guinea

Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation of Guinea detained President Alpha Conde on Sunday after hours of heavy gunfire rang out near the presidential palace in the capital in an apparent coup.

www.nbcnews.com

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2021-09-06/uneasy-calm-in-guinea-after-president-condes-apparent-ouster

'Unattainable power': the frustrations that drove Guinea's coup leader

Guinea coup leader confiscates ministers’ cars and passports

The leader of a coup in Guinea has told the country’s ministers that they must hand over all official cars and travel documents and warned them that failure to

www.thetimes.co.uk

Guinea military ousts president who defied democratic term limits

After overthrowing President Alpha Conde Sunday, Guinea's new military leaders moved Monday to take control of regional governments too.

www.csmonitor.com

Is this just another power grab? Or is this a case of removing a corrupt official?

 

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President Conde's capture comes less than a year after a violently contested election that led to the start of his third term, according to the Associated Press. In 2020 Conde rammed through a referendum to change the constitution, which then allowed him to run for a third term.


On Sunday many took to the streets to celebrate Conde's removal from power, running and cheering alongside passing military vehicles.


Alpha Conde ascended to his role as the country's leader in 2010 as Guinea's first democratically elected president. His government helped boost mining and exports of its vast quantities of the mineral bauxite, used in the manufacturing of aluminum. But, as Human Rights Watch documented in 2018, the bauxite operations disrupted the lives and livelihoods of many in rural Guinea.

Frustration had also been mounting over the years that the wealth gained from bauxite was not trickling down to most of the country.

Guinea's Military Declared A Coup. What Happens Next Is Uncertain

Members of Guinea's military arrested the country's president Sunday. Col. Mamady Doumbouya, the coup's leader, said he was dissolving the country's constitution and government.

www.npr.org

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Our future if the Orange Guy had not been removed????

 

[pcgeek11]

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Is this just another power grab? Or is this a case of removing a corrupt official?

From the article:
"If the coup succeeds, it will be the third violent transfer of power in a West African nation in the past five months."

It seems this is a common occurrence in that part of the world. According to the 2020 Corruption Perception Index The African Continent is pretty darn corrupt.

Sub-Saharan Africa: corruption perception 2022 | Statista

Sub-Saharan Africa had the lowest global average score in the Corruption Perception Index as of 2022.

www.statista.com

 

[Bitek]

From the article:
"If the coup succeeds, it will be the third violent transfer of power in a West African nation in the past five months."

It seems this is a common occurrence in that part of the world. According to the 2020 Corruption Perception Index The African Continent is pretty darn corrupt.

Sub-Saharan Africa: corruption perception 2022 | Statista

Sub-Saharan Africa had the lowest global average score in the Corruption Perception Index as of 2022.

www.statista.com

"In that part of the world" What does that mean?
They are able to pull it off?

 

[Greenman]

"In that part of the world" What does that mean?
They are able to pull it off?

That would be my guess. Though they probably cheated and used guns.

 

[pcgeek11]

"In that part of the world" What does that mean?
They are able to pull it off?

Don't be obtuse. You know exactly what I mean.

Read the link.

Sub-Saharan Africa: corruption perception 2022 | Statista

Sub-Saharan Africa had the lowest global average score in the Corruption Perception Index as of 2022.

www.statista.com

 

[woolfe9998]

Is this just another power grab? Or is this a case of removing a corrupt official?

Both. It's always both. They remove a corrupt official to install another corrupt official.