Guinea Conkary’s founding first lady Hadja Andrée Touré has passed away at her residence in Morocco at the age of 91.
She was the widow of late Ahmed Sekou Toure who ruled Guinea from 1957 until his death in 1984.
President Mamadi Doumbouya in a tribute described her as a woman of immense strength and courage, qualities she devoted not just to her immediate family but to Guinea.
”She was part of the trials of our shared history with remarkable strength of spirit” President Doumbouya said, praising her role in the struggle for independence from France led by her husband.
In the immediate aftermath of the coup which followed the death of her husband in 1984, Hadja Andrée Touré was imprisoned after being sentened to eight years in jail by the then junta led by Lansana Conte. She later went into exile but returned in 2000. She had also lived in Senegal and Ivory Coast before settling in Morocco where she died on Wednesday.
The daughter of a physician, Hadja Andrée Touré was born in Kankan, Guinea in 1934 and married Sékou Touré in 1953.
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