The Guinean military’s overthrow of President Alpha Condé on September 5, 2021 is the country’s third coup d’état since its independence in 1958, an outcome of autocratic overreach, erosion of democratic norms, systemic corruption and economic mismanagement (Devermont, 2021). Alpha Condé, the first peacefully and democratically elected president of Guinea, began to govern the country in 2010, and was re-elected …