From fatigues to finery: A West African power grab masterclass
IN what political scientists are calling "a textbook case of how to keep your day job," Guinea's coup leader, Mamady Doumbouya, has pulled off the rather neat trick of transforming himself from military strongman to democratically elected president, with a positively North Korean 86.72% of the vote, no less. The former special forces commander, who in 2021 decided the previous president had overstayed his welcome (after a mere 11 years), has now completed what transition experts are euphemistically calling a "return to civilian rule." One might say he's simply swapped his combat boots for presidential loafers, though the grip on…
