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ECOWAS Visits Guinea-Bissau Crisis After Military Coup
The military coup halted election results after the Nov. 23 vote, installed Gen. Horta Inta-a as transitional leader, and triggered ECOWAS mediation to restore constitutional order.
- On Monday, an ECOWAS delegation led by Julius Maada Bio, ECOWAS chairman and President of Sierra Leone, arrived in Bissau for mediation talks.
- Following the contested presidential election held on Nov. 23, soldiers seized power three days later and ECOWAS suspended Guinea-Bissau from decision-making bodies the day after the coup.
- Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embaló was deposed and later fled to Brazzaville, while the military installed Gen. Horta Inta-a for a one-year transition and appointed a 28-member government.
- International actors condemned the takeover while Nigeria sought ECOWAS security assistance; UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the coup, and President Bola Tinubu granted protection to opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa at the Nigerian embassy in Bissau.
- The country of 2.2 million has long faced coups and drug‑trafficking‑linked instability, while ECOWAS, 15-nation regional bloc formed in 1975, has struggled in recent years to reverse coups.
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In receiving the Cedeao, the Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Election Commission explained that the ballot boxes could no longer speak because they were destroyed, as well as their contents, by armed men who violently interrupted counting operations on the day of the coup d'état.
Nigeria Offers Protection to Guinea-Bissau Opposition Candidate Dias
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