EXPLAINER: Why is history repeating itself in Guinea’s coup?

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Many hoped that Guinea’s landmark 2010 predetermination would yet springiness the West African state a antiauthoritarian person aft decades of corrupt dictatorship. Instead President Alpha Conde decided to instrumentality astir for a 3rd term, modifying the constitution truthful that the word limits nary longer applied to him. His program to widen his regularisation prompted convulsive thoroughfare protests successful Conakry past twelvemonth — and yet sealed Conde’s destiny arsenic susceptible to the benignant of subject coup that galore hoped was becoming a happening of the past. State tv has carried images of jubilant Guineans celebrating but the existent trial could beryllium whether forces loyal to the ousted president judge the coup.