Guinea

President Toure remained in power until his death in 1984, when he was succeeded by Lansana Conte in a bloodless coup. Immediately after Conte’s death in 2008, military officers installed Captain Moussa Dadis Camara as president and promised to hold elections within two years. A presidential poll held on 27 June 2010 was won by Alpha Conde, who remained in power until he was removed by a coup in 2021. Political violence flared in 2013 and again in 2019-2020. 

A massacre occurred on 28 September 2009 after a rally in Conakry, the country’s capital. Government forces attacked the crowd, wounding 1,500 people, killing another 150 and raping 100 women. The incident resulted in an unknown number of disappearances. Hundreds of bodies were reported to have been buried in mass graves on the night of the massacre. In September 2022, 11 men accused of responsibility for the massacre were put on trial.