Guinea-Bissau’s president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has left for Senegal after being detained during a military coup that halted the release of election results. Dakar confirmed he arrived aboard a chartered military aircraft, as opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa accused him of orchestrating the power grab to block an opposition victory.
The military has appointed General Horta N’Tam, the army chief of staff and a figure seen as close to Embalo, as transitional leader for one year. Dias, speaking from hiding, insisted he won Sunday’s vote and claimed the crisis was engineered to stop him taking office. His ally, former candidate Domingos Simoes Pereira, was arrested on Wednesday.
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UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the takeover, calling for the immediate restoration of constitutional order in the coup-prone nation.
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