Article 72DTV Opposition anger as Guinea’s junta leader is frontrunner to be elected president

Opposition anger as Guinea’s junta leader is frontrunner to be elected president

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Eromo Egbejule in Abidjan
from World news | The Guardian on (#72DTV)

Mamady Doumbouya accused of betraying his promise to be the restorer of democracy after leading 2021 coup

In September 2021, a tall, young colonel in the Guinean army announced that he and his comrades had forcibly seized power and toppled the longtime leader Alpha Conde.

The will of the strongest has always supplanted the law," Mamady Doumbouya said in a speech, stressing that the soldiers were acting to restore the will of the people.

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