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GUINEA πŸ‡¬πŸ‡³ COUP LEADER SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT (Checkout photos)

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Col Mamady Doumbouya has been sworn is as Guinea’s interim president after leading a coup which saw the overthrow of Alpha CondΓ©.

The former French legionnaire aged 41, becomes Africa’s second-youngest leader, after Mali’s Assimi GoΓ―ta, 38, who also staged a military takeover.

Doumbouya, who led the overthrow of president Alpha Conde on September 5, was sworn in by Supreme Court head Mamadou Sylla for a transition period of unspecified length.

Fearless soldier

The new interim president spoke of his β€œcommitment” that neither he nor any member of the junta would stand in any future elections that the military have promised to organise after a transition period.

His administration’s mission is to β€œrefound the state” he said, by drafting a new constitution, fighting corruption, reforming the electoral system and then organising β€œfree, credible and transparent” elections.

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