Tag: COUP
Gunfire Rocks Guinea-Bissau As Soldiers Arrest President In Dramatic Coup
Gunfire shattered the calm of Bissau on Wednesday as the West African nation of Guinea‑Bissau descended into chaos. According to his own account, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló was arrested around 1:00 p.m. inside the presidential palace in what he called a “coup d’état” orchestrated by the country’s army chief of staff. Accompanying Embaló in custody…
Rumoured Coup Plot: N11bn Found In Detained Colonel’s Bank Accounts
Military intelligence traced about N11bn to the bank accounts of a colonel detained over the alleged coup plot involving some senior military officers. Top-level security sources told our correspondents that the discovery connected the detained officer to the alleged coup. According to an officer familiar with the investigation, the colonel, who served directly under a…