Mamady Doumbouya

Doumbouya was born in the Kankan Region and is of Mandinka origin. ^{1 2} He served as a corporal in the French Foreign Legion until 2009, returned to Guinea in 2011 as an infantry instructor, and in 2018 was named head of the Special Forces Group, an elite unit created by President Alpha Condé, rising to colonel by 2020 and to general in 2024. ¹ In 2018, at a training session in Burkina Faso, he met Mali's Assimi Goïta, who would himself later take power by coup. ¹

On 5 September 2021 Doumbouya led the coup d'état that detained President Alpha Condé, announcing on state television that his National Committee of Reconciliation and Development had dissolved the government and constitution; he was sworn in as interim president on 1 October 2021, succeeding Condé. ¹ His junta dissolved the interim government in February 2024 ahead of elections, held a constitutional referendum in September 2025 that voters approved, and Doumbouya won the presidential election of 28 December 2025 with 86.72 per cent of the vote, being inaugurated as a civilian president on 17 January 2026. ¹

No article text in English or Arabic says anything about Doumbouya's religion — the Arabic article records only his Mandinka origin — while the English article files him under Guinean Muslims and Wikidata carries the single value Islam. ^{1 2 3} Filings and a single structured item do not attest a school, so the museum records his faith as unknown and preserves the readings in the data file.

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