By The Cry Of Faith
5th September, 2021

A Guinean Army Colonel draped in a national flag said in a broadcast on state television that the country's borders have been closed and that a transitional government will soon be formed. 

"The personalization of political life is over. We will no longer entrust politics to one man. We will entrust it to the people," Colonel Mamadi Doumboya said in the broadcast.

A source in the presidential palace told DW that the president was indeed detained by special forces.  
Which means that, the coup has actually succeeded," DW West Africa correspondent Fred Muvunyi said. "We just had our colleagues in Conakry telling us that the army that staged the coup have already been on TV and national radio confirming that they have arrested Alpha Conde." 

Alpha Conde assumed office in 2010 after the country's first-ever democratic elections. He survived an assassination attempt in 2011.  

The 83-year-old won a third term last year in the 2020 presidential election. His win came after he rammed through constitutional changes allowing him to sidestep the country's limit of two presidential terms. 

The opposition claimed last year's election was fraudulent, with dozens of people subsequently killed in anti-government protests.

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