Guinea: consolidating an extra presidential term bid
- August 14, 2019
- - 5:41 pm
Guinean President Alpha Condé is on his way to France to participate in activities commemorating the 75th anniversary of allied forces landings in southern France during World War II. Certainly memorializing the role of Guinean (and other francophone African) soldiers fighting alongside French forces during the world war is a notable diplomatic event for the Guinean leader. But ensuring the incumbent president possesses political deference for his undeclared extra presidential term bid is a driving factor behind his robust tempo of diplomatic summitry at home and abroad. Condé has served as president of Guinea since 2010, when he rose to …
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