Special forces claim to have ousted Guinea’s long serving President Alpha Conde on Sunday, telling the West African nation they had dissolved its government, constitution and closed its land and air borders.
The elite army unit’s head Mamady Doumbouya says that “poverty and endemic corruption” drove them to remove the president from power.
Alassane Diallo, a resident of Conakry, says, “While the President was proclaiming everywhere that he wanted to govern differently by annihilating corruption, the embezzlement of public funds increased.”