President of Guinea Conakry Alpha Conde swears in as president as he is inaugurated for his controversial third term in office following violently disputed elections in Conakry on December 15, 2020. - Guinean President Alpha Conde appealed for nation CONAKRY, Guinea - Mutinous soldiers in the West African nation of Guinea detained President Alpha Conde on Sunday after hours of heavy gunfire rang out near the presidential palace in the capital, then announced on state television that the government had been dissolved in an apparent coup d’etat.The country’s borders were closed and its constitution was declared invalid in the announcement read aloud on state television by army Col.