Conakry (AFP) – Guineans say they are optimistic the day after a military-led coup toppled 83-year-old President Alpha Conde and scrapped the contested constitution. Public discontent had been brewing for months over a flatlining Covid-hit economy and Conde’s leadership of Conde, who became Guinea’s first democratically elected president in 2010. Five years later, he was re-elected — but in 2020 he sparked fury after ramming through changes to the constitution enabling him to serve a two-term limit.
