Soldiers in Guinea led by Colonel Mamady Doumbouya, a soldier trained by the French Foreign Legion, carried out a military coup in September 2021, deposing Alpha Conde who had served as president for more than a decade.
Conde had won re-election in 2020 in an election marred by allegations of vote-rigging, a controversial constitutional reform that allowed him to run for a third term in office and brutal suppression of protests.
