Mamady Doumbouya

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Mamady Doumbouya (N’Ko: ߡߊ߬ߡߊߘߌ߫ ߘߎ߲ߓߎߦߊ߫, born 5 December 1984) is a Guinean general serving as the current fifth president of Guinea since 1 October 2021. He maintained his position after he won the 2025 Guinean presidential election in a landslide victory. Doumbouya led a coup d’état on 5 September 2021 that overthrew the previous president, Alpha Condé.
He is a member of the Special Forces Group of the Guinean military and a former French legionnaire. On the day of the coup, Doumbouya issued a broadcast on state television declaring that his faction had dissolved the government and constitution. On 1 October 2021, Doumbouya was sworn in as interim president. He became the head of the military junta that seized power following the coup d’état.

== Early life ==
Doumbouya was born on 5 December 1984 in the Kankan Region of Guinea. He is of Mandinka origins. He attended primary school at Dramé Oumar school.

== Military career ==
Doumbouya was a French legionnaire holding the rank of corporal until the end of his contract in 2009.
He returned to Guinea in 2011, where he was posted to the Centre d’instruction d’infanterie of Camp Kwamé Krumah first as instructor and then as Director of…