What we know about the Guinea coup and the man behind it

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What we know about the Guinea coup and the man behind it

Guinea’s military special forces staged a coup on Sunday, saying they had arrested the country’s president, dissolved the government and scrapped the constitution to make way for a new one. This came on the back of hours of heavy gunfire near the presidential palace in the capital, Conakry. The military special forces, who said they...

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