[1/2]Guinea Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo attends a gathering with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin following the Russia-Africa summit in Saint Petersburg, Russia, July 29, 2023. Sergei Bobylyov/TASS Host Photograph Company by way of REUTERS/File picture Purchase Licensing Rights
BISSAU, Dec 2 (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo stated on Saturday that gunfire and clashes that had erupted within the capital of the West African nation on Friday have been an tried coup.
“I can guarantee you that the occasions of December 1, 2023, are one more tried coup and people accountable will undergo critical penalties,” Embalo informed journalists after arriving from Dubai the place he was attending the COP28 local weather summit.
Clashes between two military factions broke out in Bissau on Thursday night time and continued on Friday after nationwide guard troopers freed an opposition minister who was detained in a corruption investigation.
Bissaud’s military stated in a press release on Friday that order had been restored by afternoon within the tiny West African nation the place coups and unrest have been commonplace because it gained independence from Portugal in 1974.
A minimum of six folks have been killed throughout a failed try and overthrow Embalo in February 2022.
“On February 1, 2022, we witnessed the identical state of affairs. We nonetheless must put an finish as soon as and for all on these upheavals in Guinea-Bissau,” Embalo stated.
Reporting by Alberto Dabo; Writing by Bate Felix; enhancing by Jonathan Oatis and Nick Zieminski
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