First Lady of Guinea explained
First lady of Guinea (French: Première Dame de la République de Guinée) is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Guinea.[1] The country's present first lady is Lauriane Doumbouya, wife of interim President Mamady Doumbouya, who had held the position since the 2021 Guinean coup d'etat on September 5, 2021.[2] There has been no first gentleman of Guinea to date.
First Ladies of Guinea
Names | Portrait | Term Began | Term Ended | President of Guinea | Image of President | Notes |
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Andrée Touré | | October 2, 1958 | March 26, 1984 | Ahmed Sékou Touré | | Born Marie-Andrée Duplantier, Andrée Touré married Ahmed Sékou Touré in 1953. She became Guinea's inaugural first lady upon the country's independence in 1958.[3] |
Delphine Béavogui | | March 26, 1984 | April 3, 1984 | Louis Lansana Beavogui | | Louis Lansana Beavogui served as interim president following President Ahmed Sékou Touré's death. Delphine Béavogui died on August 28, 2018, at the age of 87.[4] [5] |
Henriette Conté | | April 5, 1984 | December 22, 2008 | Lansana Conté | | President Lansana Conté, who came to power in the 1984 Guinean coup d'état, was polygamous and had four wives.[6] [7] [8] - Henriette Conté held the position of First Lady of Guinea during Lansana Conté's presidency. She died from a heart attack in Kaporo, Conakry, on May 12, 2020.[9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
- , President Conté's second wife, is a former Miss Guinea beauty pageant winner. By 2003, Kadiatou Seth Conté was living abroad, away from President Conté, in Morocco with their eight children, though the relationship had reportedly begun to improve at the time.[15]
- Lansana Conté's third wife,, a member of the Peule people, had one son with Conté. During the president's declining health in 2003, Bah Conté reportedly lived in a home on Conakry's Corniche under the guard of the country's Red Brigades.
- Mamadie Touré is Lansana Conté's fourth and youngest wife, having married the president during the 2000s. Her name is mentioned in numerous documents during an investigation into the $2.5 billion mining rights to the Simandou iron ore mine, which was obtained by Beny Steinmetz and his BSGR company. Mamadie Touré agreed to cooperate with American prosecutors and the FBI as a witness during its corruption probe.[16] She lived in Jacksonville, Florida, as of 2013.
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Position vacant | | December 24, 2008 | December 3, 2009 | Moussa Dadis Camara | | Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power in the 2008 Guinean coup d'état after Lansana Conté's death. Camara went into exile in Burkina Faso in January 2010 following an assassination attempt and settled in Ouagadougou with his girlfriend,, a Burkinabe national.[17] Moussa Dadis Camara married Jeanne Saba on August 22, 2010, and converted to Saba's religion, Roman Catholicism, on the same day as their wedding.[18] Saba and Camara had two children by 2012. |
? | | December 3, 2009 | December 21, 2010 | Sékouba Konaté (acting) | | Konaté wed, though it is unclear if they were married during his tenure in office. |
Djene Kaba Condé | | December 21, 2010 | September 5, 2021 | Alpha Condé | | Overthrow in 2021 Guinean coup d'état. She died in France on 8 April 2023. |
Lauriane Doumbouya | | September 5, 2021 | Present | Mamady Doumbouya | | Incumbent first lady since the 2021 Guinean coup d'état led by her husband. |
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Notes and References
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- Web site: Guinée : qui est Lauriane Doumbouya, la nouvelle première dame ? – Jeune Afrique . 2022-04-27 . JeuneAfrique.com . fr-FR.
- News: Clarisse . Juompan-Yakam . Que sont devenues les veuves des anciens présidents africains? . . 2012-11-20 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200522213442/https://www.jeuneafrique.com/139300/societe/que-sont-devenues-les-veuves-des-anciens-pr-sidents-africains/ . 2020-05-22 . live.
- News: Page Noire: Delphine Béavogui, l'épouse de l'ex-PM Lansana Béavogui, s'en est allée . Guineenews.org . 2018-08-28 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180829113109/https://www.guineenews.org/page-noire-delphine-beavogui-lepouse-de-lex-pm-lansana-beavogui-sen-est-allee/ . 2018-08-29 . live.
- News: Mme Delphine Lansana Béavogui n’est plus . . 2018-08-28 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200522215224/http://guineeactuelle.com/mme-delphine-lansana-beavogui-nest-plus . 2020-05-22 . live.
- News: Alhassan . Sillah . Guinea's strongman feels the heat . . 2007-01-22 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190724123856/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6287961.stm . 2019-07-24 . live.
- News: Cheikh . Yérim Seck . Ambiance de fin de règne . . 2003-03-25 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200522235638/https://www.jeuneafrique.com/78889/archives-thematique/ambiance-de-fin-de-r-gne/ . 2020-05-22 . live.
- News: Ian . Cobain . Afua . Hirsch . The tycoon, the dictator's wife and the $2.5bn Guinea mining deal . . 2013-07-30 . 2020-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180314192505/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/africa-guinea-mining-bsgr-steinmetz . 2018-03-14 . live.
- News: Youssouf . Boundou Sylla . Henriette Conté, l’épouse de l’ex président guinéen est décédée, à Conakry . Guineenews.org . 2020-05-12 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200520114341/https://www.guineenews.org/henriette-conte-lepouse-de-lex-president-guineen-est-decedee-a-conakry/ . 2020-05-20 . live.
- News: Louis. Celestin . Décès de Henriette Conté : réactions croisées de Fodé Bangoura et de Aboubacar Soumah . Guineenews.org . 2020-05-13 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200520183532/https://www.guineenews.org/deces-de-henriette-conte-reactions-croisees-de-fode-bangoura-et-de-aboubacar-soumah/ . 2020-05-20 . live.
- News: Heinan . Conde . Guinée: décès à Conakry de l’ancienne première dame Henriette Conté . . 2020-05-13 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200522233900/http://www.affichesguineennes.com/2020/05/13/guinee-deces-a-conakry-de-lancienne-premiere-dame-henriette-conte/ . 2020-05-22 . live.
- News: Guinée: Décès de l'ex-Première dame Henriette Conté . Vonews Afrique . 2020-05-13 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200518210915/https://vonews.net/guinee-deces-de-lex-premiere-dame-henriette-conte/ . 2020-05-18 . live.
- News: Décès de Henriette Conté: "Cette dame était d’une pureté extraordinaire", dixit Kabinet Komara, ancien premier ministre . Guinee7.com . 2020-05-13 . 2020-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200520162633/https://www.guinee7.com/deces-de-henriette-conte-cette-dame-etait-dune-purete-extraordinaire-dixit-kabinet-komara-ancien-premier-ministre/ . 2020-05-20 . live.
- News: Décès de Mme Henriette Conté: les beaux souvenirs de Boubacar Yacine Diallo . Guineematin . 2020-05-13 . 2020-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200518235229/https://guineematin.com/2020/05/13/deces-de-mme-henriette-conte-est-decedee-les-beaux-souvenirs-de-boubacar-yacine-diallo/ . 2020-05-18 . live.
- News: Elisa . Camara . Kadiatou Seth, épouse de l’ex-président Conté en deuil: Mohamed, son frère aîné, n’est plus . Mediaguinee . 2017-09-04 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200522234639/https://mediaguinee.org/kadiatou-seth-epouse-de-lex-president-conte-en-deuil-mohamed-son-frere-aine-nest-plus/ . 2020-05-22 . live.
- News: Khadija . Sharife . Panama Papers: Steinmetz Guinea deal pried open . . 2016-04-04 . 2020-05-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190413154537/https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/2016-04-04-panama-papers-steinmetz-guinea-deal-pried-open/ . 2019-04-13 . live.
- News: Baudelaire . Mieu . Guinée – Burkina: Dadis cool, en villégiature à Ouaga . . 2012-04-03 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180924190554/https://www.jeuneafrique.com/142274/politique/guin-e-burkina-dadis-cool-en-vill-giature-ouaga/ . 2018-09-24 . live.
- News: Marie-France . Réveillard . Dadis Camara peut-il rentrer en Guinée? . . 2017-06-15 . 2020-05-22 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190712215357/https://afrique.latribune.fr/afrique-de-l-ouest/guinee/2017-06-15/dadis-camara-peut-il-rentrer-en-guinee-739353.html . 2019-07-12 . live.