Colonel Mamady Doumbouya A.K.A. Dialo, the man who took over power in Guinea

He’s the man who just took over after military coup in Guinea, detaining president Alpha Conde.

As the United Nations and Nigeria, the region’s dominant power, condemned any takeover by force, the elite army unit’s head, Mamady Doumbouya, said “poverty and endemic corruption” had driven his forces to remove Conde from office.

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“We have dissolved government and institutions,” Doumbouya said on state television, draped in Guinea’s national flag and surrounded by eight other armed soldiers. “We are going to rewrite a constitution together.”