Conakry: Guinea, where the Junta seizes power in the coup on Sunday, arrests President Alpha Conde, is a poor West African country despite the wealth of natural resources.
The former French colony is the only Francophone state in the continent who has been rejected in 1958 the Franco-African community proposed by French President Charles de Gaulle.
Conversely, the country is plump for independence and install a socialist regime to be carried out by Ahmed Sekou Toure with iron fists for a quarter of a century.
Under his rule, around 50,000 people are killed or just disappear, according to human rights organizations.
Guinea has spent decades under the authoritarian regime or dictator, starting with Toure Sexou, followed by Lansana Conte, who died in 2008.
A military junta under Captain Moussa Dadis Camara then took over in a coup without blood.
On September 28, 2009, the security forces slaughtered 157 people in the rally collected tens of thousands of opposition supporters in Conakry protested the expected camera participation in the next presidential election, while 109 women were raped, according to the UN source.
On November 7, 2010, the long-term contradiction of Alpha Conde became the first president chosen freely in Guinea’s history.
He was re-elected in 2015 for the second term after the poll was damaged by violence and amid accusations of fraud.
Standing Conde for the third term last October led to tension and the arrest of dozens of opponents but he proclaimed the winner on November 7 even though there were challenges until the results of the main rival Cellou Dalein Diallo and three other candidates claiming charging and other deviations.
Guinea, which borders Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Guinea Bissau, is 80 percent of Muslims but consists of many ethnic groups, the two main becomes Fulani and Malinkes.
A little bigger than England, he sat on the wealth of natural resources.
This is mainly one of the world’s main bauxite producers, mineral heads used in aluminum production but also iron, gold, diamond and oil producers.
Agriculture is the main source of work.
GDP grew 5.6 percent in 2019 and 5.2 percent in 2020, according to the African Development Bank, who expects a five percent increase in topping this year based on strong performance in mining and also distreamed from the Soupiti Flagship Northeast of Capital Conakry Hydropower Station.
But corruption remains a major problem.
International Transparency of the 137th Guinea rank of 180 on its index last year and its social inequality was about half of 13 million people living below the poverty line, according to the State National Statistics Institute.
Many people also don’t have access to electricity and running water, according to the World Bank.
Guinea has among the highest female genital mutilation incidents (FGM), UNICEF said about 97 percent of girls and women underwent circumcision.
The country is also hit by the worst outbreak until now Ebola, which began in the country in December 2013 and lasted three years.
This plague left 11,000 West Africans – 2,500 of them in Guinea.
Guinea is, with Mali, Mandingo music cradle played with traditional instruments including Kora such as Harp and Balafon, a type of xylophone.
One of his most famous exponents, Mory Kante, who died in May last year, scored a global hit in 1987 with “Yeke Yeke”.
Five things that need to be known about Guinea
