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Washington directly condemned former Guinean President Alpha Condé and announced Friday, December 9 to freeze his assets, as well as prohibit any commercial relationship with him. While he had been hailed by Americans for becoming Guinea’s first democratically elected president in 2010, he then violently suppressed the opposition, before being overthrown by a coup in 2021.
With our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten
With these American sanctions, the pressure is tightening around Alpha Condé, a month after the junta ordered the hiring of legal proceedings against him and more than 180 of his senior executives or former ministers.
The US Treasury Department justifies its decision in great detail. If Washington imposed sanctions on the former President of Guinea Alpha Condé, froze his assets and prohibited any commercial relationship with him, it is for his ” serious violations of human rights ».
Destroyers of democratic ideas, the United States nevertheless appreciated that he was the first elected president in Guinea… before becoming disillusioned with his authoritarianism. They especially accuse him of having created a police unit to counter his opponents, while he was trying to stay in power nine years later.
In 2019, these police officers arbitrarily arrested demonstrators, and killed more than a dozen, just before his overthrow by coup.
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