{"id":9446,"date":"2021-09-21T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=9446"},"modified":"2021-09-21T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T10:02:03","slug":"expressway-other-projects-credited-to-ousted-guinean-president-alpha-conde-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/expressway-other-projects-credited-to-ousted-guinean-president-alpha-conde-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Expressway, other projects credited to ousted Guinean President Alpha Conde false"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Claim: A viral Facebook message has been crediting ousted Guinea President Alpha Conde for some infrastructural development in Guinea with photos of an expressway and a couple of buildings captioning it \u201cSee what Alpha Conde Did for Guinea.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A quarter of the photos are not of Guinean infrastructures and the ones that are include some projects that were not built during Alpha Conde\u2019s era.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Full Text<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Following the September 12, 2021 coup d’etat that ousted Guinean President, Professor Alpha Conde<\/a> from power, social media have been awash with several messages relating to the coup. Whilst a number of the photos captured and shared online\u00a0 have been related to the coup that was led by leader of the Special Force Lieutenant Colonel Mamadi Dumbuya<\/a>,\u00a0 some of images are completely detached and unrelated to the events unfolding in the Francophone West African nation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A photo of an expressway and several luxurious projects have been circulating with the caption \u201cSee what Alpha Conde has done for Guinea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photos have been\u00a0 published<\/a> by a Facebook page, SL Blog, with the caption \u201cI will never leave Guinea in the hands of the bandits. Says Alpha Conde. See below what Professor Alpha Conde did for Guinea\u201d and has so far seen over 417 likes and shared 40 times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Professor Alphas Conde ascended the seat of power when he won the 2010 general elections in Guinea and had served for over a decade winning two terms before setting up a referendum<\/a> to have the constitution favor his third term bid. The referendum which was mired in controversies was overwhelmingly in his favour and made him eligible to contest for a third term which he did and won amid protests<\/a> and violent clashes.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verification<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A Google reverse image search shows the expressway has no connection to Alpha Conde and Guinea. It is an Algerian road project<\/a> which\u00a0 Algerian Minister of Public Works in 2014, Mr. Abdelkader Kadi, launched to the east-west motorway and the port of Mostaganem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Algerian Expressway<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis 66-kilometer long road, which will link the east-west highway at the Hmadna interchange, will cross the localities of Hmadna, El Hamri, Khelaifia and Sidi Khettab to the east of the wilaya of Relizane and Oued El Kheir , Ouled El Bachir and Kheireddine in the wilaya of Mostaganem,\u201d said the Minister of Public Work Mr. Abdelkader Kadi in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second image<\/a> of a power plant also accredited to Professor Alpha Conde in the viral Facebook post<\/a> is equally misleading as the dam attached is not a Guinean property. Using Google reverse image search, we identified the dam as the INGA<\/a> hydro plant connected to the Inga Fall in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo of Inga Dam in DRC.<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Other photos<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Whilst some of the images like the Grand Mosque and the Hotels are Guinean infrastructures, not all can be credited to Alpha Conde. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Grand Mosque \u201cGrande Mosqu\u00e9e Fay\u00e7al\u201d which is the fourth biggest Mosque in the World and is located in Conakry was built in 1982 under Ahmed Sekou Turay while the Riviera Hotel<\/a> was established in 2001, nine years before Conde took power.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Riviera Hotel<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Images of\u00a0 Grand Mosque, Twin Tower and Hotel Kaloum in Conakry.<\/strong><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The image below, identified as the\u00a0 Hotel Palm Camayenne<\/a> is equally a Guinean project. This hotel was built by Russians in 1964 and went through different phases of refurbishment and management. It remained a state property until 2011 when it was reported<\/a> that it had been bought by a Lebanese businessman, Michel Charter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheraton Grand Conakry<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This image below is actually a Guinean infrastructure and it is the Sheraton Grand Conakry Hotel that was launched sometime in 2016. The Sheraton Grand Conakry<\/a> Hotel marks Marriott International’s entry into Guinea and joins a portfolio of more than 35 Sheraton Grand properties worldwide, with destinations spanning Istanbul, Dubai, Bangalore, Beijing and beyond. This is therefore a private business venture and directly attributing it to Alpha Conde\u2019s successes is misleading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sheraton Grand Conakry<\/em><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This next image is the Grand Diamond\u00a0 Plaza located in Kipe in Conakry\u00a0 and was actually commissioned by ousted President Alpha Condeh as sitting president and the CEO of CDG Yao Tianping\u00a0 in 2015. This was a China Dreal Group (CDG) real estate investment<\/a> and it is popularly known as the International City of Conakry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Plaza Diamond Kipe<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whilst most of these infrastructures are found in Guinea, it is clear from the analysis that they are private projects and investments-mostly hotels. Some of them were as well not done during the presidency of Conde and therefore not part of what President Alpha Conde has done for Guinea as captioned by the facebook post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The images of infrastructural gains accredited to President Alpha Conde in the screenshots above are misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claim: A viral Facebook message has been crediting ousted Guinea President Alpha Conde for some infrastructural development in Guinea with photos of an expressway and a couple of buildings captioning it \u201cSee what Alpha Conde Did for Guinea.\u201d A quarter of the photos are not of Guinean infrastructures and the ones that are include some projects that were not built during Alpha Conde\u2019s era. Full Text Following the September 12, 2021 coup d’etat that ousted Guinean President, Professor Alpha Conde from power, social media have been awash with several messages relating to the coup. Whilst a number of the photos captured and shared online\u00a0 have been related to the coup that was led by leader of the Special Force Lieutenant Colonel Mamadi Dumbuya,\u00a0 some of images are completely detached and unrelated to the events unfolding in the Francophone West African nation. A photo of an expressway and several luxurious projects have been circulating with the caption \u201cSee what Alpha Conde has done for Guinea.\u201d The photos have been\u00a0 published by a Facebook page, SL Blog, with the caption \u201cI will never leave Guinea in the hands of the bandits. Says Alpha Conde. See below what Professor Alpha Conde did for Guinea\u201d and has so far seen over 417 likes and shared 40 times. Professor Alphas Conde ascended the seat of power when he won the 2010 general elections in Guinea and had served for over a decade winning two terms before setting up a referendum to have the constitution favor his third term bid. The referendum which was mired in controversies was overwhelmingly in his favour and made him eligible to contest for a third term which he did and won amid protests and violent clashes.\u00a0 Verification A Google reverse image search shows the expressway has no connection to Alpha Conde and Guinea. It is an Algerian road project which\u00a0 Algerian Minister of Public Works in 2014, Mr. Abdelkader Kadi, launched to the east-west motorway and the port of Mostaganem. \u201cThis 66-kilometer long road, which will link the east-west highway at the Hmadna interchange, will cross the localities of Hmadna, El Hamri, Khelaifia and Sidi Khettab to the east of the wilaya of Relizane and Oued El Kheir , Ouled El Bachir and Kheireddine in the wilaya of Mostaganem,\u201d said the Minister of Public Work Mr. Abdelkader Kadi in 2014. A second image of a power plant also accredited to Professor Alpha Conde in the viral Facebook post is equally misleading as the dam attached is not a Guinean property. Using Google reverse image search, we identified the dam as the INGA hydro plant connected to the Inga Fall in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Other photos Whilst some of the images like the Grand Mosque and the Hotels are Guinean infrastructures, not all can be credited to Alpha Conde.  The Grand Mosque \u201cGrande Mosqu\u00e9e Fay\u00e7al\u201d which is the fourth biggest Mosque in the World and is located in Conakry was built in 1982 under Ahmed Sekou Turay while the Riviera Hotel was established in 2001, nine years before Conde took power.\u00a0 The image below, identified as the\u00a0 Hotel Palm Camayenne is equally a Guinean project. This hotel was built by Russians in 1964 and went through different phases of refurbishment and management. It remained a state property until 2011 when it was reported that it had been bought by a Lebanese businessman, Michel Charter. This image below is actually a Guinean infrastructure and it is the Sheraton Grand Conakry Hotel that was launched sometime in 2016. The Sheraton Grand Conakry Hotel marks Marriott International’s entry into Guinea and joins a portfolio of more than 35 Sheraton Grand properties worldwide, with destinations spanning Istanbul, Dubai, Bangalore, Beijing and beyond. This is therefore a private business venture and directly attributing it to Alpha Conde\u2019s successes is misleading. This next image is the Grand Diamond\u00a0 Plaza located in Kipe in Conakry\u00a0 and was actually commissioned by ousted President Alpha Condeh as sitting president and the CEO of CDG Yao Tianping\u00a0 in 2015. This was a China Dreal Group (CDG) real estate investment and it is popularly known as the International City of Conakry. Plaza Diamond Kipe Whilst most of these infrastructures are found in Guinea, it is clear from the analysis that they are private projects and investments-mostly hotels. Some of them were as well not done during the presidency of Conde and therefore not part of what President Alpha Conde has done for Guinea as captioned by the facebook post. Conclusion The images of infrastructural gains accredited to President Alpha Conde in the screenshots above are misleading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[437,1571,16,1268],"tags":[2533,2534,2535,2532,605,1272],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[1270],"class_list":["post-9446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-facebook-checks","category-fact-check","category-politics","category-sierra-leone","tag-alpha-conde","tag-coup","tag-coup-detat","tag-guinea","tag-military","tag-sierra-leone"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-2sm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":1270,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"alietarawally","display_name":"Alie Tarawally","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4dfb39a6e0d16bf66cb549f4f1310e8b4bff6698e82467a363ad53c8e7f14a9c?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"Tarawally","first_name":"Alie","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Expressway-other-projects-credited-to-ousted-Guinean-President-Alpha-Conde-false.jpg?fit=1080%2C608&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=9446"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=9446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}