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Conakry, Sep 6 (EFE/EPA).- The President of Guinea-Conakry Alpha Conde, detained on Sunday in a coup d’etat staged by the military, is being forced to step down after 11 years in office, which saw him fall from grace as a hardened democrat to an autocrat desperately clinging to power.Conde insisted on retaining the presidential seat by calling for a referendum that allowed him to change the constitution and run for a third term, overcoming the constitutional limit of two terms that would have ended his tenure on December 21, 2020.His detractors organized protests to condemn his actions before a brutal clampdown killed at least 50 people, according to Amnesty International. The opposition claims there were more than 90 fatalities. (Camera: STRINGER).SHOT LIST: GUINEAN SPECIAL FORCES CELEBRATE WITH GUINEANS WAVING THE NATIONAL FLAG DURING CELEBRATIONS AT THE PALACE OF THE PEOPLE IN CONAKRY, GUINEA.
Guinea-Conakry (Guinea), September 6 (EFE / EPA).- The President of Guinea-Conakry Alpha Conde, detained on Sunday in a coup d’etat staged by the military, is being forced to step down after 11 years in office, which saw him fall from grace as a hardened democrat to an autocrat desperately clinging to power. FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST OF SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
French-Israeli magnate Beny Steinmetz arrives at the Geneva courthouse to face allegations of corruption linked to mining deals in Guinea. IMAGES of his arrival at the courthouse
In Guinea, incumbent President Alpha Conde votes in a polling station in the capital Conakry. Twelve candidates are in the running to lead this country of some 12 million inhabitants, among the poorest in the world rival its immense natural resources. The 82-year-old Conde's mian opponent is long-time opponent Cellou Dalein Diallo, 68, who was formerly a prime minister under authoritarian leader Lansana Conte. Some 5.4 million registered voters are due to cast their ballots, and initial results are expected to be announced several days afterwards. A second round is scheduled for November 24. IMAGES
Images at the start of the trial against Bjorn Hoecke, head of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Thuringia, who appears in court for publicly using a banned Nazi slogan. He stands accused of twice using the phrase "Alles fuer Deutschland" ("Everything for Germany"), once a motto of the so-called Sturmabteilung paramilitary group that played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power. IMAGES
The President of French centrist party MoDem, François Bayrou, and former Secretary of State to the Minister of the Armed Forces, Geneviève Darrieussecq, arrive at the Paris Court House as they await verdict in their trial. Bayrou and ten senior members of the party are accused of devising a fraudulent scheme to pass some party members as European parliamentary assistants and get them paid as such. IMAGES
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