Is there still a functioning opposition in Guinea?
One year ago Guineans poured into the street to celebrate the ousting of Alpha Conde in a military coup. The increasingly unpopular president had changed the constitution to allow himself a third term \u2013 and had put down protests against him with a heavy hand. \n \nSo many members of the main opposition grouping which had organised the protests \u2013 the National Front for the Defense of the Constitution, or FNDC \u2013 joined the celebrations.
But fast-forward a year and the FNDC has been banned by the military junta \u2013 and many of its leaders arrested.\n \nIt\u2019s called on people to come out today \u2013 Monday 5th September \u2013 to mark the one year anniversary of the coup \u2013 and urge a faster handover to civilian rule.
Meanwhile the leader of the coup \u2013 and the current military government \u2013 Colonel Mamady Doumbouya failed to give an expected address to the nation on Sunday night. \n \nAlan Kasujja (@kasujja) discusses Guinea\u2019s turbulent year with the BBC\u2019s Alhassan Silla, who\u2019s been reading the mood on the street in Conakry.