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Guinea’s new strongman: combat-hardened ex-Legionnaire

  • Doumbouya invoked Ghana’s late firebrand leader, Jerry Rawlings, who took power through a coup in 1981 before overseeing a shift to democracy
  • Doumbouya trained at France’s Ecole de Guerre military academy and was a member of the fabled Foreign Legion
By AFP ·

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