The country's latest military junta led by former French legionnaire Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya promises it will form a national unity government without specifying a timetable for elections or a return to civilian rule...
Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya was due to meet the directors of the biggest mining houses in Conakry on 16 September...
While Condé's manipulation of the electoral rules and brutal crackdowns on opposition demonstrations laid the ground for Sunday's coup these were not the only factors behind his sudden fall at the hands of Colonel Mamady Doumbouya's 300-strong special forces unit...
New ruler moves to pre-empt Ecowas The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) has been reflecting on the regional response to events in Conakry with Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara said to have spoken with the new military ruler Colonel Mamady Doumbouya on Monday while Ghana's Nana Addo Akufo-Addo organised an 8 September emergency regional summit...
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Within hours of Colonel Mamady Doumbouya and his men seizing power in Conakry in the morning of 5 September and arresting President Alpha Condé regional leaders were calling for a return to constitutional rule and threatening sanctions...
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