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Guinea coup

September 7, 2021
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In news–Recently, Aluminum prices rose to their highest level in 10 years after a military coup in mineral-rich Guinea threatened to snarl the lightweight metal’s supply chain.

Guinea Coup & reasons for it:

  • It  is a government takeover by the armed forces of Guinea that occurred on 5 September 2021.
  • It resulted in the capture of the country’s President Alpha Condé after gunfire in the capital, Conakry. 
  • The unrest may have started after the dismissal of a senior commander in the special forces – provoking some of its highly trained members to rebel.
  • After several decades of authoritarian rule in Guinea, Condé was the country’s first democratically elected leader. 
  • In 2020, Condé changed the constitution by referendum to allow himself to secure a third term, despite the controversial change sparking the 2019–2020 Guinean protests. 
  • Guinea’s coup is the fourth time West Africa has witnessed an attempt to undermine democracy in the region since August 2020. 
  • There have been two military takeovers in Mali and a failed attempt in Niger.

Guinea-

  • Guinea is a country in West Africa, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. 
  • It’s known for the Mount Nimba Strict Nature Reserve, in the southeast. 
  • The reserve protects a forested mountain range rich in native plants and animals, including chimpanzees and the viviparous toad. 
  • On the coast, the capital city, Conakry, is home to the modern Grand Mosque and the National Museum, with its regional artifacts.
  • The former French colony is the only Francophone state on the continent to have rejected in 1958 the Franco-African community proposed by then French President Charles de Gaulle. 
  • Instead, the country plumped for independence and installed a socialist regime.

Guinea, which borders Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Mali, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, is 80 percent Muslim but is made up of numerous ethnic groups, the main two being the Fulani and the Malinkes.

  • It is notably one of the world’s top producers of bauxite, the chief mineral used in the production of aluminium but also a producer of iron, gold, diamonds and oil.
  • Agriculture is the main source of employment.
  • Guinea has among the world’s highest incidences of female genital mutilation (FGM).
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