The fate of Guinea's President Alpha Condé is unclear after an unverified video showed him surrounded by soldiers, who said they had seized power.

They appeared on national TV claiming to have dissolved the government. This follows hours of heavy gunfire near the presidential palace in the capital, Conakry.

Calling themselves the National Committee for Reconciliation and Development, they said the constitution had been dissolved and that there would be consultations to create a new, more inclusive one.

We are no longer going to entrust politics to one man, we are going to entrust politics to the people,” Doumbouya said in a public TV address. “Guinea is beautiful. We don't need to rape Guinea anymore, we just need to make love to her.”

Numerous reports say the coup was led by an elite unit headed by a former French legionnaire, Lt Col Mamady Doumbouya.

For those frustrated by last year's constitutional change that allowed President Alpha Condé to run for a third term, news that the constitution would now be scrapped and replaced in consultation with the public has been warmly welcomed.

It's the fourth attempted coup in West Africa in just over a year. There have been two military takeovers in Mali and a failed attempt in Niger since August 2020.

bbc.com/news/world-africa-58453778

I don't know enough about Guinea to draw any conclusions here. Is this like a Sankara coup or a Bokassa coup? or something else entirely

Reminds me slightly of the situation in Haiti everyone forgot about

A graduate from the École de Guerre war college in Paris

having also undergone specialist training in Israel

The Lieutenant Colonel’s problems with Conakry’s leadership reportedly began when he was prevented from giving the SFG autonomy from the Ministry of Defence.Author and geopolitical specialist Mamadou Aliou Barry, who heads the Centre for A***ysis and Strategic Studies in Guinea, said the elite forces had also been used to repress public demonstrations. “I think he (Condé) wanted a security instrument at his disposal for specific repressive missions," Barry told RFI’s Christophe Boisbouvier.

rfi.fr/en/africa/20210906-what-we-know-about-guinea-coup-leader-mamady-doumbouya-a-master-of-war-conde

Oh I get it now

Goddamn it

World will never leave my continent alone

I'm sure the guy he couped was also bad for the country.
ie giving this legionnaire control of anything

I haven't looked that far into it so you're probably right, just tired of foreign influence/tampering and some of the stuff you and others have posted seems to be pointing that way once again

We are no longer going to entrust politics to one man, we are going to entrust politics to the people,” Doumbouya said in a public TV address. “Guinea is beautiful. We don't need to rape Guinea anymore, we just need to make love to her.”

they are on some other s*** with this one

Obama created AFRICOM btw.
Jay Elec left him out of the verse!