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The head of Guinea´s junta Col. Mamadi Doumbouya said recently he rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people and he attributed the recent coups in Africa as attempts by militaries to save their countries from broken promises of the present set of presidents ruling such states.
The head of Guinea´s junta Col. Mamadi Doumbouya said recently he rebuffed the West for boxing in the continent of more than 1 billion people and he attributed the recent coups in Africa as attempts by militaries to save their countries from broken promises of the present set of presidents ruling such states.
Col. Mamadi Doumbouya, who was sworn in as Guinea’s interim president following the coup in 2021, told the U.N. General Assembly that beyond condemning the coups, global leaders must also introspect deep-rooted malaise, which these countries are facing. He told the gathering of world leaders in New York that the real putschists are those who manipulate the text of the Constitution in order to stay in power eternally.
Guinea is one of several nations in West and Central Africa that have experienced eight coups since 2020, including two – Niger and Gabon – in recent months. The military takeovers, sometimes celebrated by citizens in those countries and condemned by international organizations and foreign countries, have raised concern about the stability of the continent, whose young population of at least 1.3 billion is set to double by 2050 and make up a quarter of the planet´s people.
Doumbouya accused some leaders in Africa of clinging to power by any means – often including amending the constitution – to the detriment of their people. In Guinea, he said he led soldiers to depose then-President Alpha Conde in the September 2021 coup to prevent the country from slipping into complete chaos. He said the situation was similar in other countries hit by coups and was a result of “broken promises, the lethargy of the people and leaders tampering with constitutions with the sole concern of remaining in power to the detriment of collective well-being.
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Doumbouya also rebuffed attempts by the West and other developed countries to intervene in Africa´s political challenges, saying that Africans are exhausted by the categorizations with which everyone wants to box us.
