Doumbouya's presidential guard and the gendarmerie carry the most weight in the CNRD which leans heavily towards the Malinké community the origin of four among Guinea's six post-Independence presidents: Ahmed Sékou Touré (1958-1984) Gen Sékouba Konaté (2010) Alpha Condé (2010–2021) and Gen Mamady Doumbouya (2021-present)...
Some see it as a return to the days of Guinea's first President Ahmed Sékou Touré who ruled a one-party state increasingly despotically from independence in 1958 until his death in 1984 and gave his name to the presidential palace the Sékoutouréyah...
6% in favour of the new constitution a victory margin that resembles those obtained by Condé's predecessors: Ahmed Sékou Touré who ran Guinea with an iron first from 1958-84 and condemned Condé to death in absentia in 1970 for being part of the opposition and Lansana Conté who had him jailed and tortured for the same reason (AC Vol 49 No 3 One Conakry two Lansanas)...
A colourful business acquaintance Gambian-based Mamadou Sylla is also a liability as is Mohamed Touré grandson and chief apologist of founding President Ahmed Sékou Touré...
When it became clear that Ahmed Sékou Touré was turning Guinea into a police state and family business Condé campaigned against him earning a death sentence in absentia in 1970...
That would mean restoring the Foutah a policy imposed by the founding President Ahmed Sékou Touré a Malinké to keep Peuhl systematically out of senior positions...
He is now 73 and will have competed against three presidents: Ahmed Sékou Touré Conté and Dadis Camara...
He worked at the United Nations International Labour Organisation in the reign of the late President Ahmed Sékou Touré and was in the opposition under President Lansana Conté...
He reminded some of the old dictator Ahmed Sékou Touré; his wife did not help by erecting a gigantic elephant statue in Conakry’s Belle Vue district...
Vol 48 No 1 |
- WEST AFRICA
Politics are febrile the economy is near chaos and many despairingly predict a new take-over by the well cushioned army as was the case after the death of President Ahmed Sékou Touré in 1984...