Military carries out a coup d’état in Guinea-Bissau three days after the legislative and presidential elections

Coup d’état in Guinea-Bissau. A group of soldiers claimed this Wednesday to have taken control of the country just three days after the legislative and presidential elections were held in the West African country.

The self-proclaimed High Military Command for the Restoration of National Order announced that the electoral process was suspended and ordered the closure of the country’s borders and airspace “until further orders.”

The group of senior officers of the Guinea-Bissau army announced that, in addition to suspending the electoral process, deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo given the “need to clarify the situation before returning to the constitutional order.”

The spokesman for the group of senior officers, General Denis N’Canha, military officer of the presidential palace, announced these measures by reading a statement at the Armed Forces Headquarters in the country’s capital, Bissau.

Hours before this announcement, shots had been fired around the presidential palace.

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