Question : Recently which country’s president Alpha Conde ousted in Military Coup?
(a) Kenya
(b) Guyana
(c) Guinea
(d) Ghana
Answer : (c)
Related Facts:
• Alpha Conde, President of Guinea, was deposed as the military stormed the president’s palace and took him into custody.
• Alpha Conde was Guinea’s first democratically elected president. He was elected in 2010.
• Alpha Conde has been in power for almost 11 years, serving as President of Guinea from December 2010 to September 2021.
• He is longest serving president of Guinea.
• The military detained the President after hours of heavy gunfire in Guinea’s capital and replaced regional governors with military commanders.
• Military head Doumbouya assured that there would be no “witch hunt” of the former.
• According to the military head Doumbouya, mismanagement, corruption and bad governance had been persisting in Conde’s government and this coup had been done for the people.
• Military coup is an illegal, unconstitutional seizure of power by a political faction, the military, or a dictator.
BY: AMIT GUPTA
Reference : https://www.thehindu.com/news/international/army-takes-over-power-in-guinea/article36319938.ece