Guinea: Africa is still wedded to coups, By Owei Lakemfa

The so-called special forces in Guinea established to fight terrorism and piracy, rolled out their trucks and tanks on Sunday, September 5, 2021 on the streets of the capital, Conakry. Within hours, they had captured President Alpha Conde, dissolved parliament, consigned the constitution to the dustbin and made Western democracy history in that section of the world.

I was at the African Union, AU Heads of State Summit in Addis Ababa where angry African presidents insisted that Egypt be suspended from the body so long as the military remains in power and President Morsi and political prisoners are in jail. But el-Sisi had the backing of powerful countries and soon, the AU buckled.

General el-Sisi with an estimated 100,000 political prisoners, was in February, 2019, made AU Chair. In a sick joke, when Sudan’s President Hussein el-Bashir was overthrown in June 2019, the AU, presided over by General el-Sisi suspended that country on the basis that the AU does not condole coups! Ghana had least six military coups in two decades, starting from the 1966 removal of President Kwame Nkrumah. Nigeria has had six successful coups and unknown number of attempted ones. It spent 28 of its first 39 years of post-independence under military regimes. Until today, 22 years after the last military regime, the country is run on a unitary-military system.

Actually, his ‘election’ in 2010 could only be explained as a miracle; he scored only 18 per-cent of the votes in the first round while his rival, Cellou Dalein Diallo, secured 40 per-cent; but in the second round, he scored 52.5 per-cent and was re-elected in 2015 for a final term. But Conde, amid widespread protests and massacres, changed the constitution to give himself a third term in office. He was subsequently awarded 59.59 per-cent of the votes in the October, 2020 election.

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