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It has taken Alpha Condé three attempts, a long battle with military regimes and incarceration and torture by one of them to win his country’s presidency. Condé was born in 1938 in the aluminium town of Boké, in the coastal region. In the 1960s and 70s, he studied law, sociology and political science at the Sorbonne and at Sciences-Pô in Paris, getting swept up in the protests of May 1968....

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Alpha Condé, Ahmed Sékou Touré, Lansana Conté, French, Moussa Dadis Camara, in absentia, Rassemblement du Peuple de Guinée, Libération

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