The modern state of Guinea did not come into existence until 1958,but the history of the area stretches back well before European colonization. Its current boundaries were determined during the colonial period by the Berlin Conference (1884–1885) and the French,who ruled Guinea until 1958.
Politics of Guinea takes place in a framework of a presidential representative democratic republic,whereby the President of Guinea is both head of state and head of government of Guinea. Executive power is exercised by the government. Legislative power is vested in both the government and the National Assembly.
Lansana Conté was a Guinean politician and military official who served as the second president of Guinea,from 5 April 1984 until his death on 22 December 2008. Contécame to power in the 1984 Guinean coup d'état.
Guinea elects on the national level a head of state—the president—and a legislature. The president is elected for a five-year term by the people through a two-round system. The National Assembly has 114 members,elected for five-year terms,38 members in single-seat constituencies and 76 members by proportional representation.
Alpha Condé is a Guinean politician who served as the fourth president of Guinea from 2010 to 2021.
Sidya Touré is a Guinean politician. He was Prime Minister of Guinea from 1996 to 1999 and is currently the President of the Union of Republican Forces (UFR),an opposition party.
El Hajj Aboubacar Somparé was a Guinean politician who was President of the National Assembly of Guinea from 2002 to 2008. He was previously Guinea's Ambassador to France from 1978 to 1984 and was Secretary-General of the Unity and Progress Party (PUP) from 1995 to 2002.
Lansana Kouyaté is a Guinean politician and diplomat who served as Prime Minister of Guinea from 2007 to 2008. Previously he was Executive Secretary of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) from 1997 to 2002.
Eugène Camara was a politician from Guinea who was briefly Prime Minister of Guinea in February 2007.
Parliamentary elections were held in Guinea on 28 September 2013 after numerous delays and postponements. President Alpha Condé's party,the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG) emerged as the largest party in the National Assembly with 53 of the 114 seats. Parties allied with the RDG won seven seats and opposition parties won the remaining 53 seats. Opposition leaders denounced the official results as fraudulent.
Ahmed Tidiane Souaré is a Guinean political figure who was the Prime Minister of Guinea from May 2008 to December 2008,when he was replaced by Kabine Komara following a military coup d'état.
Military unrest occurred in Guinea in late May 2008 as soldiers of the Military of Guinea demanded wage arrears. In the capital,Conakry,soldiers fired into the air,held the deputy chief of staff of the army prisoner,and engaged in looting. The government promised to pay the soldiers,and by the end of May the situation was reportedly calm.
On 23 December 2008,a coup d'état occurred in Guinea,shortly after the death of long-time President Lansana Conté. A junta called the National Council for Democracy and Development,headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara,seized power and announced that it planned to rule the country for two years prior to a new presidential election. Camara did indeed step down after Alpha Condéwas elected in the 2010 election.
KabinéKomara was Prime Minister of Guinea from 30 December 2008 to 26 January 2010. Until the end of 2008 a director at the African Export-Import Bank in Cairo,Egypt,Komara was announced as the new Prime Minister in a government radio broadcast on 30 December.
Presidential elections were held in Guinea in 2010. They were held under the two-round system,with the first round taking place on 27 June 2010 and the second round on 7 November,after an initial date of 18 July and several other postponements. Alpha Condéwas declared the winner,with 52.52% of the votes in the second round. He assumed office on 21 December 2010.
The 2009 Guinean protests were an opposition rally in Conakry,Guinea on Monday,28 September 2009,with about 50,000 participants protesting against the junta government that came to power after the Guinean coup d'état of December 2008. The protest march was fueled by the indication of junta leader Captain Moussa Dadis Camara breaking his pledge to not run in the next presidential vote due in January 2010. The government had already banned any form of protests until 2 October. When the demonstrators gathered in a large stadium,the security forces opened fire at them. At least 157 demonstrators were killed,1,253 injured and 30,including Cellou Dalein Diallo,the leader of the opposition Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea (UDFG),were arrested and taken away in lorries.
Jean-Marie Doré was a Guinean politician who was the prime minister of Guinea from January 2010 until December 2010. Doré,who was the president of the Union for the Progress of Guinea (UPG),was an opposition leader for years before being chosen to head a transitional government that was in place during the preparation and conduct of the 2010 presidential election.
The Union of Democratic Forces of Guinea is a social-liberal political party in Guinea.
Presidential elections were held in Guinea on 18 October 2020. Incumbent president Alpha Condéwas running for a third term. He was challenged by former prime minister Cellou Dalein Diallo,as well as several other candidates.
Events in the year 2020 in Guinea.
