A bunch of army officers had claimed ‘complete management’ of the nation, a day after two main candidates in a tightly contested presidential election every declared victory.
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The army in Guinea-Bissau has appointed a common because the nation’s new chief for one 12 months, a day after staging a coup to grab energy and arresting the president of the West African nation as contentious election outcomes had been imminent.
“I’ve simply been sworn in to guide the Excessive Command,” Basic Horta Nta Na Man declared after taking the oath of workplace in a ceremony on the army’s headquarters on Thursday, AFP journalists noticed.
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Dozens of closely armed troopers had been deployed on the scene.
On Wednesday, a day after two main candidates in a tightly contested presidential election every declared victory, a gaggle of army officers claimed “complete management” of the nation.
Calling themselves the “Excessive Army Command for the Restoration of Order”, the officers learn out a press release on tv, declaring that they’d ordered the quick suspension of the electoral course of “till additional discover”.
They ousted President Umaro Sissoco Embalo within the newest episode of unrest within the coup-prone nation.
Provisional outcomes had been anticipated to be introduced within the race between Embalo and Fernando Dias, a political newcomer who had emerged as the highest challenger to the incumbent to run the nation, which is a hub for cocaine trafficking.
The capital, Bissau, was principally quiet on Thursday, with troopers patrolling the streets and lots of residents staying indoors even after the in a single day curfew was lifted. Companies and banks had been closed.
The army had additionally ordered the closure of all land, air and sea borders.
The takeover announcment got here shortly after sustained gunfire was heard close to the election fee’s headquarters, the presidential palace and the Ministry of the Inside within the capital, Bissau on Wednesday.
“I’ve been deposed,” Embalo informed French broadcaster France24 in a telephone name on Wednesday, including that he was “at the moment on the common workers headquarters”.
Reporting from neighbouring Senegal that afternoon, Al Jazeera’s Nicolas Haque reported that Embalo was underneath arrest.
The top of the primary opposition PAIGC social gathering, Domingos Simoes Pereira, has additionally been arrested, Haque stated. “As effectively, we’ve simply heard that the army is attempting to chop off the Web. There’s a curfew in place.”
He added that the military officer main the coup, Denis N’Canha, served as the top of the presidential guard. “The person supposed to guard the president himself has put the president underneath arrest,” Haque stated.
In the meantime, West Africa’s ECOWAS and African Union observers expressed concern over the army takeover in Guinea-Bissau, based on a joint assertion issued by the organisations.
“It’s regrettable that this [coup] announcement got here at a time when the missions had simply concluded assembly with the 2 main presidential candidates, who assured us of their willingness to just accept the desire of the folks,” the observers stated on Wednesday.
