Alpha Condé

Condé was born in Boké in Lower Guinea and left for France at the age of fifteen, where he was active in Guinean student associations and the Black African Students Federation, and wrote a master's thesis on the PDG and the Guinean people. ¹ He led the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) in opposition, winning 18 per cent against President Lansana Conté in Guinea's first multiparty election in 1993 and 17.6 per cent in 1998, alleging fraud in both. ¹ Two days after the 1998 poll he was arrested and charged with plotting against the state; after a contested trial he was sentenced to five years in prison in 2000, then pardoned by Conté in May 2001 on condition that he stay out of politics, and he returned from exile in France in 2005. ¹

Condé won the 2010 presidential election at the second round with 52.5 per cent and took office on 21 December 2010, the first freely elected president in Guinea's history, promising to strengthen democracy and fight corruption. ^{1 2} He was re-elected in 2015, and again in 2020 with 59.5 per cent after a constitutional referendum that reset his term limits — a move his critics contested and that sparked protests that were brutally repressed. ¹ On 5 September 2021 the armed forces arrested him and overthrew his government in the coup led by Mamady Doumbouya. ^{1 2}

No article text in English, Arabic or Urdu says anything about Condé's religion; the English article files him under Guinean Muslims and Muslim socialists, and Wikidata carries the single value Islam. ^{1 2 3 4} Filings and a single structured item do not attest a school, so the museum records his faith as unknown and preserves the readings in the data file.

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