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 "id": "person/lansana-conte",
 "class": "person",
 "slug": "lansana-conte",
 "label": {
  "ar": "لانسانا كونتي",
  "en": "Lansana Conté",
  "ur": "لانسانا کونتے"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "جنرال وسياسي غيني (1934–2008) من موساياه لومبايا قرب دوبريكا، من شعب السوسو، خدم في الجيشين الفرنسي والغيني وقاد انقلاب أبريل 1984 بعد وفاة الرئيس أحمد سيكو توري فصار ثاني رئيس لغينيا (1984–2008) وحكم أولا بالمجلس العسكري ثم بأحزاب متعددة شكلية حتى مات في كوناكري في 22 ديسمبر 2008.",
  "en": "Guinean general and politician (1934–2008) from Moussayah Loumbaya near Dubréka, a member of the Susu people, who served in the French and Guinean armies and led the April 1984 coup after President Ahmed Sékou Touré's death, becoming Guinea's second president (1984–2008); he ruled first through a military committee and then under a formally multiparty system until he died in Conakry on 22 December 2008.",
  "ur": "گنی جنرل و سیاست دان (1934ء–2008ء)، دوبریکا کے قریب موسایا لومبایا سے، سوسو قوم سے؛ فرانسیسی اور گنی افواج میں خدمت کی اور صدر احمد سیکو تورے کی وفات کے بعد اپریل 1984ء کی بغاوت کی قیادت کر کے گنی کے دوسرے صدر (1984ء–2008ء) بنے، حتیٰ کہ 22 دسمبر 2008ء کو کوناکری میں انتقال ہوا۔"
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "people"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "west-africa-sahel"
 ],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [],
 "span": {
  "earliest": 1934.9109837984354,
  "latest": 2008.9768441514566
 },
 "display": {
  "start": {
   "edtf": "1934-11-30",
   "hijri": "1353",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give his birth on 30 November 1934 at Moussayah Loumbaya (Dubréka) in French Guinea; the English article notes that Conté himself estimated his birth date and never knew it exactly. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-en",
    "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar",
    "source/wikidata-lansana-conte"
   ]
  },
  "end": {
   "edtf": "2008-12-22",
   "hijri": "1429",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give his death in Conakry on 22 December 2008, in office; the Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-en",
    "source/wikidata-lansana-conte"
   ]
  }
 },
 "data": {
  "names": [
   {
    "value": "Lansana Conté",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "لانسانا كونتي",
    "kind": "full"
   },
   {
    "value": "لانسانا کونتے",
    "kind": "full"
   }
  ],
  "gender": "male",
  "roles": [
   "general",
   "politician"
  ],
  "born": {
   "edtf": "1934-11-30",
   "hijri": "1353",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give his birth on 30 November 1934 at Moussayah Loumbaya (Dubréka) in French Guinea; the English article notes that Conté himself estimated his birth date and never knew it exactly. The Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-en",
    "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar",
    "source/wikidata-lansana-conte"
   ]
  },
  "died": {
   "edtf": "2008-12-22",
   "hijri": "1429",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "day",
   "status": "historical",
   "derived": true,
   "note": "The English and Arabic articles and Wikidata give his death in Conakry on 22 December 2008, in office; the Hijri year is derived by tabular conversion.",
   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-en",
    "source/wikidata-lansana-conte"
   ]
  },
  "faith": [
   {
    "value": "unknown",
    "basis": "unknown",
    "note": "One text attests his Muslim identity personally: the Arabic article states of his Susu roots 'وهو مسلم الديانة' — he is of the Muslim religion — with a citation. The English article's text does not attest his religion: it records his education at a local Qur'anic school, which is formation, and his part in the ruling party's official pilgrimage to Mecca in 1980 as a member of a government delegation, which is practice in an official capacity; neither names a school. The English article files him under Guinean Muslims and Wikidata carries the single value Islam. One text attesting Muslim identity with no school named anywhere is the Khan configuration, so the value stays unknown with the attestation preserved here.",
    "sources": [
     "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar",
     "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-en",
     "source/wikidata-lansana-conte"
    ]
   }
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   "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-en",
   "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar",
   "source/wikidata-lansana-conte"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "English Wikipedia 'Lansana Conté' (revision 1361944176 of 1 July 2026), Arabic Wikipedia 'لانسانا كونتي' (revision 76080312 of 3 August 2026) and Wikidata item Q202582 (item revision 2558106184 of 17 October 2026), read via the MediaWiki API on 26 October 2026; every article was fetched by its recorded revision id and the returned id asserted equal before any claim was drawn, and the Wikidata item revision was read from the API itself (its date is internally coherent). Existence was checked by filename fragments under all spellings (conte, conté — the only hit is the Spanish count conde-de-alcaudete, a different man), by Arabic label, by biography and by the QID route across data/person/ — no earlier record exists, and his Arabic label matches no existing record's label. No Urdu article exists, so the Urdu label is a transliteration and the Urdu prose cites the English and Arabic sources. No place entity exists for Dubréka or Conakry, so no born_in or died_in edge is written. His successor_of edge to Ahmed Sékou Touré is written in his own record: he succeeded Touré as president of Guinea (the articles count him the second president; Touré died in office on 26 March 1984, and after an eight-day interim under Prime Minister Louis Lansana Beavogui, who has no person record, Conté's coup of 3 April 1984 made him president, proclaimed on 5 April).",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)",
   "run": "century-additions-76"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "published",
   "generated_by": "Muse (Muse Spark 1.3)"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "النشأة والخدمة العسكرية",
     "markdown": "وُلد كونتي في موساياه لومبايا قرب دوبريكا، وهو من شعب السوسو ومسلم الديانة؛ وتذكر المقالة الإنجليزية أنه قدّر تاريخ ميلاده بنفسه ولم يعرفه على وجه الدقة. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar} تعلّم في مدرسة قرآنية محلية وفي مدرسة دوبريكا الابتدائية، ثم في مدارس عسكرية إعدادية في بينغرفيل وسان لوي. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} التحق بالجيش الفرنسي سنة 1955 وخدم في الجزائر، ثم انضم إلى الجيش الغيني الجديد عند الاستقلال سنة 1958 وتدرّج في مدارس ضباطه؛ وفي سنة 1980 شارك في الحج الرسمي للحزب الحاكم إلى مكة ضمن وفد حكومي. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "انقلاب 1984 والحكم",
     "markdown": "مات الرئيس أحمد سيكو توري في 26 مارس 1984، وبعد فترة انتقالية قصيرة برئاسة الوزير الأول قاد كونتي انقلاب 3 أبريل 1984 وأُعلن رئيسا في 5 أبريل، خليفةً لتوري وثاني رئيس لغينيا. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} وندّد بانتهاكات نظام توري لحقوق الإنسان وأطلق سراح سجناء سياسيين وأغلق معتقل كامب بويرو. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} واتجهت حكومته إلى التحرير الاقتصادي، وبدأ في أوائل التسعينات انتقالا إلى التعددية الحزبية ففاز بانتخابات 1993 و1998 و2003 وسط اتهامات المعارضة بالتزوير؛ وبقي نظامه سلطويا وإن كان أخف من نظام توري. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} ومات في منصبه في كوناكري في 22 ديسمبر 2008. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikidata-lansana-conte}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ملاحظة على السجل",
     "markdown": "تقول المقالة العربية نصا إن كونتي مسلم الديانة؛ وتذكر المقالة الإنجليزية فقط دراسته في المدرسة القرآنية ومشاركته في حج رسمي للحزب إلى مكة، وتصنّفه ضمن مسلمي غينيا، وتحمل ويكيداتا قيمة وحيدة هي «الإسلام». {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar} {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikidata-lansana-conte} ولا يسمّي أي مصدر مذهبا أو فرعا له، لذلك يسجّل المتحف دينه «غير معروف» ويحفظ الشهادة في ملف البيانات."
    },
    {
     "heading": "المراجع",
     "markdown": "- كيانات المصادر المعرّفة المُستشهد بها أعلاه، مسجّلة في `data/source/`."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/lansana-conte",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-26"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Early life and military service",
     "markdown": "Conté was born at Moussayah Loumbaya, near Dubréka, a member of the Susu people; the English article notes that he estimated his own birth date and never knew it exactly. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar} He was educated at a local Qur'anic school and at Dubréka primary school, then at military preparatory schools in Bingerville and Saint-Louis. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} He enlisted in the French Army in 1955 and served in Algeria, then joined the new Guinean army at independence in 1958, rising through its officer schools; in 1980 he took part in the ruling party's official pilgrimage to Mecca as a head of delegation in his government capacity. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The 1984 coup and rule",
     "markdown": "President Ahmed Sékou Touré died on 26 March 1984, and after a brief interim under the prime minister, Conté led the military coup of 3 April 1984 and was proclaimed president on 5 April, succeeding Touré as Guinea's second president. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} He denounced the Touré regime's human rights abuses, released political prisoners and closed the Camp Boiro detention centre. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} His government pursued economic liberalisation, and in the early 1990s he began a transition to multiparty rule, winning the presidential elections of 1993, 1998 and 2003 amid opposition fraud allegations; his regime remained authoritarian though milder than Touré's. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} He died in office in Conakry on 22 December 2008. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikidata-lansana-conte}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "A note on the record",
     "markdown": "The Arabic article states in text that Conté was of the Muslim religion; the English article records only his Qur'anic schooling and his part in an official party pilgrimage to Mecca, and files him under Guinean Muslims, while Wikidata carries the single value Islam. {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar} {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikidata-lansana-conte} No source names a school or branch for him, so the museum records his faith as unknown and preserves the attestation in the data file."
    },
    {
     "heading": "Sources",
     "markdown": "- The defined source entities cited above, recorded in `data/source/`."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/lansana-conte",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-26"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "ابتدائی زندگی اور فوجی خدمت",
     "markdown": "کونتے دوبریکا کے قریب موسایا لومبایا میں پیدا ہوئے، سوسو قوم سے تھے؛ انگریزی مضمون نوٹ کرتا ہے کہ انھوں نے اپنی تاریخِ پیدائش خود اندازے سے مقرر کی اور وہ اسے یقین سے نہیں جانتے تھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar} انھوں نے مقامی قرآنی مدرسے اور دوبریکا پرائمری اسکول میں تعلیم پائی، پھر بینگرول اور سینٹ لوئس کی فوجی درس گاہوں میں پڑھے۔ {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} وہ 1955ء میں فرانسیسی فوج میں بھرتی ہوئے اور الجزائر میں خدمت کی، پھر 1958ء میں آزادی پر نئی گنی فوج میں شامل ہوئے؛ 1980ء میں انھوں نے حکمران جماعت کے سرکاری حج وفد میں مکہ کا سفر کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "1984ء کی بغاوت اور حکمرانی",
     "markdown": "صدر احمد سیکو تورے 26 مارچ 1984ء کو انتقال کر گئے، اور مختصر عبوری دور کے بعد کونتے نے 3 اپریل 1984ء کی بغاوت کی قیادت کی اور 5 اپریل کو صدر قرار پائے، یوں وہ تورے کے جانشین اور گنی کے دوسرے صدر بنے۔ {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} انھوں نے تورے کے دور کی انسانی حقوق کی خلاف ورزیوں کی مذمت کی، سیاسی قیدی رہا کیے اور کیمپ بویرو کا حراستی مرکز بند کیا۔ {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} وہ 22 دسمبر 2008ء کو کوناکری میں عہدے پر رہتے ہوئے انتقال کر گئے۔ {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikidata-lansana-conte}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "ریکارڈ پر نوٹ",
     "markdown": "عربی مضمون نصاً کہتا ہے کہ کونتے مسلم الدین تھے؛ انگریزی مضمون صرف ان کی قرآنی تعلیم اور سرکاری حاجی وفد میں شرکت درج کرتا ہے اور انھیں گنی کے مسلمانوں میں شمار کرتا ہے، جب کہ وکی ڈیٹا میں واحد قیمت «اسلام» ہے۔ {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-ar} {cite:wikipedia-lansana-conte-en} {cite:wikidata-lansana-conte} کوئی ماخذ ان کے کسی مسلک کا نام نہیں لیتا، اس لیے متحف ان کا دین «نامعلوم» درج کرتا ہے۔"
    },
    {
     "heading": "مصادر",
     "markdown": "- اوپر مذکور معرّف ماخذ اکائیاں، `data/source/` میں درج ہیں۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "person/lansana-conte",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-26"
  }
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  "person/abdul-hameed-swati",
  "person/abdul-latif-chowdhury-fultali",
  "person/abdul-sattar-edhi",
  "person/abdullah-bin-abdulaziz",
  "person/ahmed-asmat-abdel-meguid",
  "person/ahmed-ben-bella",
  "person/ahmed-kathrada",
  "person/ahmed-lemu",
  "person/akbar-hashemi-rafsanjani",
  "person/ali-hassan-mwinyi",
  "person/ali-javan"
 ],
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   "sources": [
    "source/wikipedia-lansana-conte-en"
   ]
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  "person/ahmed-sekou-toure"
 ],
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  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}