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NEWS: Army Base Attacked In Guinea

Last updated on September 11th, 2021 at 08:19 am

A military base has been attacked in Guinea, nobody has a clue on who the attackers are. This comes as a shock in the light of the forthcoming Presidential elections coming up on Sunday.

Guinea used to be in the closing hours of a feverish election marketing campaign on Friday as security forces blocked get entry to to central Conakry for unknown reasons, while a high-ranking reputable was once killed in a military camp east of the capital.

No official explanation was given for the placing up of roadblocks blocking off get admission to to the Kaloum neighborhood, the place Guinean decision-making facilities are located.

A police officer deployed in the core said that President Alpha Condé is scheduled to journey to the outskirts of the capital for a ultimate marketing campaign assembly earlier than Sunday’s presidential election, the place he is walking for a 1/3 consecutive and contested term.

These statements may want to no longer be verified.

Apart from the close to absence of site visitors in a town that is typically close to saturation and an super tranquility in streets that are usually tumultuous, the capital supplied few signs of tension.

On the different hand, at some stage in the night, about a hundred kilometers northeast of Conakry, “armed men opened furnace inner the Samoreyah navy camp in Kindia, fatally wounding Colonel Mamady Condé,” said Defense Ministry spokesman Aladji Cellou on his Facebook page.

(AFP)

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