At the time of Doumbouya's coup he headed the Battaillon autonome des troupes aéroportées (BATA) the elite parachute corps that produced Camara and former interim president Gen Sékouba Konaté...
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)...
The man who was Guinea's Acting President before the 2010 elections that brought Alpha Condé to office General Sékouba Konaté has kept an important African Union job despite being convicted of a criminal offence in the United States...
Conakry was spruced up by Guicopres a company founded and run by the ubiquitous businessman Kerfalla Person Camara who also prospered under General Sékouba Konaté's regime...
He also claims he was present during the torture and murder of Lieutenant Ousmane Coulibaly a weapons officer for General Sékouba Konaté who was number two in the junta led by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara whose 2008 coup was followed by the election that brought Condé to power...
Yet Condé has tightened security considerably since a coup attempt last July after which his security forces rounded up followers of the previous military rulers Captain Moussa Dadis Camara and General Sékouba Konaté...
Vol 5 (AAC) No 6 |
- GUINEA
- CHINA
The GDC was created under the military junta of Captain Moussa Dadis Camara (December 2008-December 2009) and General Sékouba Konaté (December 2009-November 2010)...
Condé blames a group of civilians controlled by Tibou Kamara who was Secretary General of the Presidency under General Sékouba Konaté along with Amadou Oury Bah deputy head of the opposition Union des forces démocratiques de Guinée (UFDG) and Amadou Oury Diallo (known as Sarakadji) a businessman...
Sékouba Konaté was one of several men rounded up...
Vol 52 No 14 |
- GUINEA
- MINING
A confidential audit for the government points to disastrous economic management under Captain Moussa Dadis Camara the leader of the 2008 military coup and his successor General Sekouba Konaté who organised the transition to democracy...