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Africa-Press<\/a> – Zimbabwe<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Videos shared on social media showed Guinea\u2019s President Alpha Cond\u00e9 being detained by army special forces on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The videos, which could not be immediately authenticated, were posted following hours of heavy gunfire around the presidential palace in Conakry.<\/p>\n

In a short broadcast on state TV, soldiers who staged an uprising said they have dissolved the constitution and the government in the West African state.<\/p>\n

However, the defence ministry said an attack on the presidential palace by mutinous forces had been put down. It said in a statement:<\/p>\n

The presidential guard, supported by the loyalist and republican defence and security forces, contained the threat and repelled the group of assailants.<\/p>\n

Security and combing operations are continuing to restore order and peace.<\/p>\n

Heavy gunfire had broken out near the presidential palace in Conakry on Sunday morning, with several sources saying an elite national army unit led by a former French legionnaire, Mamady Doumbouya, was behind the unrest.<\/p>\n

An unidentified soldier, draped in Guinea\u2019s national flag and surrounded by eight other armed soldiers, said in the broadcast that they planned to form a transitional government and would give further details later.<\/p>\n

Cond\u00e9 won a controversial third term in October after changing the constitution to allow him to stand again despite violent protests from the opposition, raising concerns of a relapse in a region that has seen coups in Mali and Chad in recent months.<\/p>\n

More: Reuters; France24<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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