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- The United States authorities announced recently they are imposing sanctions against Guinea’s former leader Alpha Condé for his role in triggering violence against opponents. He was ousted from power in a coup in 2021
The United States authorities announced recently they are imposing sanctions against Guinea’s former leader Alpha Condé for his role in triggering violence against opponents. He was ousted from power in a coup in 2021.
The sanctions will include freezing of Conde’s US assets. All transactions involving Alpha Condé will also be criminalized. Condé became the first democratically elected president of Guinea in 2010. But after two term, he was accused of rising authoritarianism, culminating in a bloody crackdown against protestors in 2020.
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According to the US Treasury Department, Alpha Condé, who is now 84-year old, was engaged in serious human rights abuse. On 5 September 2021, Condé was captured and overthrown by the military during the 2021 Guinean coup d’état. Promising to change the political landscape of Guinea, the military’s Special Forces dissolved the constitution and shut the country’s land and air borders.
