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Guinea coup leaders impose nationwide curfew

Special forces who seized power in Guinea on Sunday, capturing President Alpha Conde, announced a nationwide curfew “until further notice” as well as the replacement of governors by the military.

 

The junta also said in a statement read out over national television that it would convene Conde’s cabinet ministers and other top officials at 11:00 am (1100 GMT) Monday in the capital Conakry.

TopNaija recalled that heavy Gunfire was heard on Sunday morning at the Presidential Palace in Guinea’s capital, Conakry.

Reliable sources reveal that an elite national army unit led by a former French legionnaire, Mamady Doumbouya, was behind the unrest.

Conde won a controversial third term in October after changing the constitution to allow him to stand again despite violent protests from the opposition.

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