Bissau, Guinea-Bissau
Reuters
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Guinea-Bissau’s military installed Major-General Horta Nta Na Man as transitional president on Thursday, an army statement said, a day after soldiers toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a swift power grab that followed a disputed election.
The president who was ousted in the coup, Umaro Sissoco
Embalo, arrived in Senegal aboard a special flight following an
intervention by the West African regional bloc, Senegal’s
foreign ministry said in a statement late Thursday.
It was the ninth coup in West and Central Africa in five
years and continued a pattern of instability in Guinea-Bissau, a
notorious cocaine transport hub with a long…
