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2020 Guinean Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Guinea on 18 October 2020. Incumbent president Alpha Condé was running for a third term. He was challenged by former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo, as well as several other candidates. Background The Guinean constitution limits a president to two terms. However, changes in the new constitution passed in the controversial constitutional referendum earlier in the year included resetting the presidential terms allowing incumbent president Alpha Condé to run for a third term. Both the referendum and the legislative election being run alongside it was boycotted by most of the opposition, and was marred by protests. Former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo who ran against Condé and placed second in the previous two presidential elections ran again after first considering boycotting the vote, and was seen as the main challenger. Protests against the incumbent president have continued throughout the year. The protests have been harshly re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alpha Conde - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting 2012
Alpha (uppercase , lowercase ; grc, ἄλφα, ''álpha'', or ell, άλφα, álfa) is the first letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of one. Alpha is derived from the Phoenician letter aleph , which is the West Semitic word for " ox". Letters that arose from alpha include the Latin letter A and the Cyrillic letter А. Uses Greek In Ancient Greek, alpha was pronounced and could be either phonemically long ( ː or short ( . Where there is ambiguity, long and short alpha are sometimes written with a macron and breve today: Ᾱᾱ, Ᾰᾰ. * ὥρα = ὥρᾱ ''hōrā'' "a time" * γλῶσσα = γλῶσσᾰ ''glôssa'' "tongue" In Modern Greek, vowel length has been lost, and all instances of alpha simply represent the open front unrounded vowel . In the polytonic orthography of Greek, alpha, like other vowel letters, can occur with several diacritic marks: any of three accent symbols (), and either of two breathing marks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdoul Kabèlè Camara
Abdoul Kabèlè Camara (born 12 February 1950) is a Guinean politician and diplomat. Legal career Camara obtained a licentiate in legal sciences from Cheikh Anta Diop University, and also graduated from the National School of Administration and Magistracy in Senegal. After working several internships in Montreal in Canada between 1976 and 1977, he joined the Senegalese Magistracy in 1977. He held the positions of: * Investigating judge at the Saint-Louis court from 1977 to 1979; * President of the Labor Court of Saint-Louis (First Capital of Senegal) from 1979 to 1983; * President of the Regional Court of Saint-Louis, from 1983 to 1985; * Dean of the Senior Investigating Judges at the Dakar Regional Court from 1985 to 1988, responsible for economic and military affairs; * Advisor to the First Correctional Chamber of the Dakar Court of Appeal. Camara was also a lecturer at the National School of Administration and the Dakar Magistracy (Judicial Division) from 1988 to 1990. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 In Guinea
Events in the year 2020 in Guinea. Incumbents * President: Alpha Condé * Prime Minister: Ibrahima Kassory Fofana Events * 13 March - Guinea's first confirmed COVID-19 case was reported. A Belgian national who is an employee of the European Union delegation in Guinea has tested positive for COVID-19. * 6 September – The Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UFDG) nominates former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo as president in the October 18 election. * 15-16 October - Armed gunmen attack the Somoreyah military base in Kindia, Guinea, about outside of the capital Conakry, killing the camp's commander (Mamady Condé), according to a statement released by the defence ministry. A prison in the city was also attacked, wounding an official there and allowing several inmates to escape. * 21 October - Clashes in Conakry between police forces and supporters of Cellou Dalein Diallo left at least nine people dead. *14 December – President Alpha Conde takes the oath of office ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Ivorian Presidential Election
Presidential elections were held in Ivory Coast on 31 October 2020. Incumbent president Alassane Ouattara was re-elected with 95% of the vote amidst an opposition boycott. Background In January 2017 incumbent President Alassane Ouattara of the Rally of Houphouëtists for Democracy and Peace (RHDP) announced that he would not run again after being president for two terms (2010–2015 and 2015–2020). On 5 March 2020, he publicly reiterated his intent not to be candidate during an address to Congress. Ouattara imposed Prime Minister Amadou Gon Coulibaly as the RHDP candidate of the ruling party over other potential candidates, including Vice President Daniel Kablan Duncan, who later resigned. However, in May Coulibaly was hospitalised for heart complications and had a stent fitted. He returned to Ivory Coast on 2 July, but died six days later after falling ill during a meeting of the Council of Ministers. The event left the RHDP without a candidate, and Ouattara considered putt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Guinean Coup D'état
On 5 September 2021, President of Guinea Alpha Condé was captured by the country's armed forces in a coup d'état after gunfire in the capital, Conakry. Special forces commander Mamady Doumbouya released a broadcast on state television announcing the dissolution of the constitution and government. After several decades of authoritarian rule in Guinea, Condé was the country's first democratically elected leader. During his time in office, Guinea used its rich natural resources to improve the economy, but the bulk of the country's population has not felt its effects. In 2020, Condé changed the constitution by referendum to allow himself to secure a third term, a controversial change which spurred the 2019–2020 Guinean protests. During the last year of the second term and his third term, Condé cracked down on protests and on opposition candidates, some of whom died in prison, while the government struggled to contain price increases in basic commodities. In August 2021, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ECOWAS
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS; also known as in French and Portuguese) is a regional political and economic union of fifteen countries located in West Africa. Collectively, these countries comprise an area of , and in 2015 had an estimated population of over 349 million. Considered one of the pillar regional blocs of the continent-wide African Economic Community (AEC), the stated goal of ECOWAS is to achieve "collective self-sufficiency" for its member states by creating a single large trade bloc by building a full economic and trading union. The union was established on 28 May 1975, with the signing of the Treaty of Lagos, with its stated mission to promote economic integration across the region. A revised version of the treaty was agreed and signed on 24 July 1993 in Cotonou. The ECOWAS also serves as a peacekeeping force in the region, with member states occasionally sending joint military forces to intervene in the bloc's member countries at times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
African Union
The African Union (AU) is a continental union consisting of 55 member states located on the continent of Africa. The AU was announced in the Sirte Declaration in Sirte, Libya, on 9 September 1999, calling for the establishment of the African Union. The bloc was founded on 26 May 2001 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and launched on 9 July 2002 in Durban, South Africa. The intention of the AU was to replace the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established on 25 May 1963 in Addis Ababa by 32 signatory governments; the OAU was disbanded on 9 July 2002. The most important decisions of the AU are made by the Assembly of the African Union, a semi-annual meeting of the heads of state and government of its member states. The AU's secretariat, the African Union Commission, is based in Addis Ababa. The largest city in the AU is Lagos, Nigeria, while the largest urban agglomeration is Cairo, Egypt. The African Union has more than 1.3 billion people and an area of around and includes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conakry
Conakry (; ; sus, Kɔnakiri; N’ko: ߞߐߣߊߞߙߌ߫, Fula: ''Konaakiri'' 𞤑𞤮𞤲𞤢𞥄𞤳𞤭𞤪𞤭) is the capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973. The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at two million, accounting for one-sixth of the entire population of the country. History Conakry was originally settled on the small Tombo Island and later spread to the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula, a stretch of land wide. The city was essentially founded after Britain ceded the island to France in 1887. In 1885 the two island villages of Conakry and Boubinet had fewer than 500 inhabitants. Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904 and prospered as an export port, particularly after a railway (now closed) to Kankan opened up t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laye Souleymane Diallo
Laye may refer to: People * Camara Laye (1928–1980), Guinean writer * Dilys Laye (1934–2009), English actress and screenwriter * Evelyn Laye (1900–1996), English actress * Issa Laye Thiaw (1943–2017), Senegalese historian, theologian, and author * Joseph Henry Laye Lieutenant General Joseph Henry Laye, (4 February 1849 – 26 June 1938) was a British Army officer who served as Deputy Adjutant-General to the Forces. Military career Laye served in both the Ninth Xhosa War from 1877 to 1878 and the Anglo-Zul ... (1849–1938), British army officer * Seydina Mouhammadou Limamou Laye (1843–1909), Senegalese religious leader Places * Laye, Burkina Faso ( fr) * Laye, Hautes-Alpes, France * Laye Department, Burkina Faso {{dab, geo, surname ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
