{"id":9243,"date":"2023-09-24T11:15:17","date_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?p=9243"},"modified":"2023-09-24T11:15:17","modified_gmt":"2023-09-24T11:15:17","slug":"guinea-junta-leader-says-africa-sufficiently-mature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/9243\/guinea-junta-leader-says-africa-sufficiently-mature\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea junta leader says Africa \u201csufficiently mature\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">At a time when West African juntas are struggling to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the international community, the president of Guinea\u2019s transitional government attempted to bring the voice of Africa to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">More than two weeks after celebrating the second anniversary of his coming to power in Guinea, Colonel Mamadi Doumbouya took to the podium of the United Nations on Thursday, as part of the 78<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0session of the General Assembly in New York, USA. Dressed all in white before the world\u2019s leaders, the Guinean transitional president tried to justify the legitimacy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/8976\/list-of-recent-coups-in-west-and-central-africa\/\">coups d\u2019Etat<\/a> that have multiplied over the last three years on the continent, more specifically in West Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cI want it to be clear that the real coup plotters, the most numerous, who are not the subject of any condemnation, are also those who manipulate, who use trickery, who cheat to manipulate the texts of the constitution in order to remain in power forever. It is those in white collar jobs who change the rules of the game during the game to keep the reins of the country. These are the most numerous putschists,\u201d declared Mamadi Doumbouya, former head of Special Forces in <a href=\"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/?s=Guinea\">Guinea<\/a>, where on 5 September 2021 he led the commando unit that overthrew democratically elected President Alpha Conde.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">Alpha Cond\u00e9 had just been re-elected in 2020, at the age of 82, following a controversial constitutional amendment allowing him to run for a third term, which some have described as an \u201cinstitutional coup d\u2019Etat.\u201d The events leading up to his re-election in the first round, with 59.5 percent of the vote, were punctuated by violently repressed opposition demonstrations. The octogenarian president was deposed eleven months later and is now in exile in Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">Responsibility and \u201cinfantilization\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cWe decided to assume our responsibilities in order to avoid complete chaos and insurrection for our country,\u201d Mamadi Doumbouya defended himself, recalling that, despite the \u201cexcesses\u201d of the former regime, \u201cno political force, all completely neutralized at the time, had the courage or the means to put an end to the imposture we were living through.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">In these conditions, \u201cthe institutional rectification to which my brothers in arms and I committed ourselves on 5 September 2021 was simply a consequence of this situation of chaos that had ended up cracking the social fabric and damaging our ability to live together,\u201d he explained.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">While he refused to apply the sanctions imposed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and other international organizations against the juntas in Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger, the Guinean leader pointed out that the transitions underway in Africa are due to a number of factors, including \u201cbroken promises, the people being lulled to sleep, and the fiddling of constitutions by leaders whose only concern is to remain in power indefinitely, to the detriment of the collective well-being.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">However, \u201cthe African people are more awake than ever and have decided to take their destiny into their own hands,\u201d recalled the former French legionnaire, before taking aim at the model of governance imposed on Africa, which \u201cis not adapted to the continent.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u201cIt\u2019s time to take our rights into account, to give us our place. But also, and above all, it\u2019s time to stop lecturing us, to stop treating us like children. Rest assured, we are old enough to know what is good for us. We are mature enough to define our priorities, to design our own model that corresponds to our identity, to the reality of our populations, to who we are quite simply,\u201d Mamadi Doumbouya told the international community.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a time when West African juntas are struggling to gain legitimacy in the eyes of the international community, the president of Guinea\u2019s transitional government attempted to bring the voice of Africa to the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). 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