popular within the army

For months,

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the president prefers to ignore the" white notes "of his intelligence services, which reported to him the alleged words of the officer

(...). He refuses to dismiss Doumbouya, unable to imagine that the latter could attempt anything against him, to whom the former master corporal of the Legion owes his five stripes of lieutenant-colonel.

loosen the army budget

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at the head of a column of about fifty trucks and pick-ups armed with machine guns, Lieutenant-Colonel Mamady Doumbouya rushes straight for Kaloum, where he makes his entry into the military. around 8 am. He engaged in the adventure almost the entire Group of Special Forces, approximately 500 men, a part of which, heavily armed, took up position in front of the Makambo camp to block any exit of the reinforcements of the presidential guard, while the another, including the 8602 special unit trained by the French and the Israelis, headed for Sekhoutouréya with the fire support of an armored vehicle and several mortars.

(…) Outside, the confrontation is brief but deadly. According to JA, around 20 presidential guards are killed

(…).

The putschists seize the president, to whom they place handcuffs after having threatened him ("

"), Then make him go down in a living room on the ground floor where they film him and him. photograph, both stunned, distraught and all with contained anger.

These images, which recall those of the haggard Gbagbo couple during their capture in April 2011, will go around the world

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Did Lieutenant-Colonel Doumbouya act because he felt the noose tightening around him

? And above all, did he act alone or under the influence

? In a country still very strongly marked by community membership, the fact that he is Malinké, like 90

% of his men, partly explains the lack of reaction from supporters of Alpha Condé and his party. This is the third successful coup in the history of Guinea after those of Lansana Conté and Moussa Dadis Camara. As always, the prisons open and the crowd applauds. It remains to be seen what happens next,

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which, as we know, often tends to end in political and economic disaster as it is obvious that the Guinean soldiers in power have always used instead of serving

Alpha must pay

!"

what can poor Cédéao do

?

We have never seen putschists restore power under the pressure of what is rightly or wrongly considered a union of heads of state. The latest proof is the Malian case, where ECOWAS paid a heavy price for its mistakes and its lack of firmness.

The pan-African organization has once again missed the boat,

forgetting its protocol on democracy and good governance.

A democracy violated by Alpha Condé who has constantly muzzled his people and his opposition, locking all possible avenues to alternation through the ballot box, repressing, without further form of trial, and in blood, any demonstration against his power.