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Condé, Alpha

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Personal name headingCondé, Alpha
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Associated countryGuinea
Associated placeFrance
Birth date1938-03-06
Place of birthBoké (Guinea : Region)
Field of activityGuinea--Politics and government
AffiliationRassemblement du peuple de Guinée
Profession or occupationCollege teachers Politicians Presidents
Found inLes sociétés traditionnelles mandingues, 1974: t.p. (Alpha Condé)
L'affaire Alpha Condé vue par un témoin du procès, 2015: page 13 (Alpha Condé, b. 6 March 1938 in Boké; university professor, leader of Rassemblement du peuple de Guinée "RPG"; candidate for the supreme court in 1993; despite massive fraud, the RPG of Alpha Condé obtained 19 seats in the Assemblée Nationale and three communes in 1995; he then did a 12-month stay in the west, returning for the presidential campaign of 1998) page 14 (arrested on Dec. 16, 1998, 2 days after the election, which was not yet decided; he was kidnapped and held in isolation for 1-1/2 years without trial)
Wikipedia, May 11, 2015 (Alpha Condé; b. 4 March 1938; Guinean politician, president of Guinea since Dec. 2010, when he became the first freely elected president in the country's history; he left for France at age 15, active in student groups there; graduate of Université Paris-Sorbonne)
Associated languagefre