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Lansana Conté

President of Guinea from 1984 to 2008

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

General Lansana Conté was a Guinean politician and military officer who served as the second president of Guinea from 1984 until his death in 2008. Conté came to power in the 1984 Guinean coup d'état.

Editorial summary

“Lansana Conté” enters the record as president of Guinea from 1984 to 2008. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lansana, Conté and President can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1984, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lansana, Conté and President.
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Why this record matters

“Lansana Conté” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lansana, Conté and President provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1984 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lansana Conté” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.