The circumstances of the taking pictures in Bissau, the capital, stay unclear.
Gunshots had been fired in a single day in Guinea-Bissau’s capital Bissau and continued into Friday morning, in keeping with Reuters and AFP information businesses.
The circumstances of the taking pictures stay unclear.
One reporter stated gunshots had been first heard after midnight within the neighbourhood of Antula, on the outskirts of the capital, the place a military basic lives.
Army autos had been on the streets on Friday morning as residents commuted to work and college. Gunshots might nonetheless be heard however had been much less frequent than throughout the night time. One other reporter heard gunshots not removed from the presidential palace.
In response to the AFP, quoting army and intelligence sources, members of the Nationwide Guard freed finance minister Souleiman Seidi and treasury secretary Antonio Monteiro from police custody. The duo had been taken in for questioning on Thursday morning concerning the reported withdrawal of $10m from state coffers.
There have been a minimum of 10 coups or tried coups in Guinea-Bissau since independence from Portugal in 1974. Just one democratically elected president has accomplished a full time period within the West African nation south of Senegal.
A minimum of six individuals had been killed throughout a failed attempt to overthrow President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in February final yr. On the time, Embalo urged it was linked to the federal government’s combat in opposition to drug trafficking reasonably than a military plan to grab energy.
“It wasn’t just a coup. It was an attempt to kill the president, the prime minister and all the cabinet,” he stated on the time after gunfire that reportedly lasted 5 hours after the presidential palace was surrounded by closely armed males.
West Africa has been hit by a number of army takeovers over the previous three years, together with two in Mali, one in Guinea, two in Burkina Faso and one in Gabon.
Sierra Leone’s authorities pushed again a army try and overthrow it over the weekend. Greater than 20 individuals had been killed as gunmen within the capital, Freetown, attacked army barracks, a jail and different places on Sunday, liberating about 2,200 inmates.
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