Mamadou Boye Bah (1 April 1930 – 26 May 2009)Souvenons-nous du Doyen Bâ Mamadou
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n political figure and economist and was one of the leading opponents of the presidents

Sékou Touré Sekou, also spelled Sékou or Seku, is a given name from the Fula language. It is equivalent to the Arabic ''Sheikh''. People with this name include: People * Sekou (singer), British singer Given name * Seku Amadu (1776–1845), also known as S� ...

and

Lansana Conté Lansana Conté (; 30 November 1934 – 22 December 2008

. Bah had originally worked in the Touré government in the early 1960s and in the late 1960s worked for the

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. However, in 1969 he was arrested for allegedly conspiring against the president

and was sent into exile. When Touré died in 1984, Bah returned to Guinea and formed the ''

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'' and become active in the opposition against the military backed government of Lansana Conté. He was presidential candidate for the UNR in the 1993 presidential elections and promised to pursue economic and educational development. In the end he received 13% of the vote. In the 1990s his UNR party became affiliated with the

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led by

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as they both shared a distrust of General Conté's government. In 2001, approaching the

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, Bah formed a coalition party the

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(MOMAD) and demanded a boycott of the elections as he believed the process was plagued with corruption and appealed to other nations for assistance. In 2002, his party didn't share the proposal of boycotting the

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, so he quit the UNR and joined the

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Guinean politicians 20th-century Guinean economists 2009 deaths Guinean exiles 1930 births {{Guinea-politician-stub