Guinea: Coup d’Etat or Coup de Grace?

... Sunday coup d’état apparently came to be a by-product of the more general political process in Guinea, following up on the events of October, 2019 “Guinea is beautiful: we don’t need to rape it anymore. We just need to make love to her.” — Mamady Doumbouya More often than not, news coming from countries in Africa remain somewhere on the periphery of our news feeds, seemingly carrying little significance for global politics and world economy as compared to other macro-regions. Many of us, Russians included, know next to nothing as to what is going on across the vast expanses of the African continent. Many would have heard about the ridiculous incident in the Suez Canal in Egypt, while ...