Alpha Conde
| Alpha Condé | |
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| President of Guinea | |
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Assumed office 21 December 2010 |
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| Prime Minister |
Jean-Marie Doré Mohamed Said Fofana Mamady Youla |
| Preceded by | Sékouba Konaté (Acting) |
| Chairperson of the African Union | |
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Assumed office 30 January 2017 |
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| Preceded by | Idriss Déby |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
4 March 1938 Boké, French Guinea (now Guinea) |
| Political party | Rally of the Guinean People |
| Spouse(s) | Djene Kaba Condé |
| Alma mater | Pantheon-Sorbonne University |
| Religion | Islam |
Alpha Condé (born 4 March 1938) is a Guinean politician who has been President of Guinea since December 2010. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against President Lansana Conté in the 1993 and 1998 presidential elections and leading the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), an opposition party. Standing again in the 2010 presidential election, Condé was elected as President of Guinea in a second round of voting. When he took office that December, he became the first freely elected president in the country's history. Condé was reelected in 2015 with almost 58 percent of the vote.
On 30 January 2017, Condé succeeded Chad's Idriss Deby as head of the African Union.
Condé was born on 4 March 1938 in Boké in Lower Guinea. His parents were from Baro, a small town in Kouroussa Prefecture in the Kankan Region of Upper Guinea. Condé is married to Djene Kaba Condé. Condé has one son, Alpha Mohamed Condé.
Condé left for France at the age of 15. He was active in parallel within the National Union of Higher Education (SNESUP) and combined the functions of charge within the Association of Guinean students in France (AEGF), and within the Federation of Black African Students in France (FEANF), in which he was the Executive Coordinator of African National Groups (NG) from 1967 to 1975, overseeing the activities of the Directorate of FEANF.
Condé wrote a master's thesis in Political Science entitled, Le P.D.G. et le peuple de Guinée in 1965.
Condé won 19.6 percent of the vote in Guinea's first multiparty presidential election, held on 19 December 1993. Lansana Conté, who had been president since a bloodless 1984 coup d'etat, won that election with 51.7 percent of the vote. Condé's supporters alleged fraud in this election after the Supreme Court nullified results in the Kankan and Siguiri prefectures, where Condé had received more than 90 percent of the vote. In the 1998 presidential election, Condé ran again and received 16.6 percent of the vote, placing third behind Conté (56.1 percent) and Mamadou Boye Bâ (24.6 percent). On 16 December, two days after the poll, Condé was arrested and charged with trying to leave the country illegally; he was also charged with attempting to recruit forces to destabilize the government.
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