Soldiers detain Guinea's president, dissolve government
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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 city, 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. We'll no longer entrust politics to one man, said Colonel Doumbouya.