CONAKRY( REUTERS)-Special forces soldiers apparently ousted Guinea’s long-serving President Alpha Conde on Sunday( Sept 5), telling the West African nation they had dissolved its government and constitution and closed its land and air borders.As the United Nations, US and Nigeria, the region’s dominant power, condemned any takeover by force, the elite army unit’s head, Mamady Doumbouya, said “ poverty and endemic corruption ” had driven his forces to remove Conde from office.“ We have dissolved

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U.S. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, left, poses with Nigerien President Mohamed Bazoum at the presidential palace in Niamey, Niger, on March 16.... Supporters of Bazoum have pleaded with the U.S. and others for weeks to restore the democratically elected leader to power.... “ They are killing him, ” said the ambassador, Mamadou Kiari Liman-Tinguiri, a close associate who maintains daily calls with the detained leader....

“ They are killing him, ” said the ambassador, Mamadou Kiari Liman-Tinguiri, a close associate who maintains daily calls with the detained leader.... “ This is inhuman, and the world should not tolerate that, ” the ambassador said.... He answers the phone when a call comes in that he knows to be his friend or someone else he wants to speak to....

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