Guinea Bissau Army general Horta N'Tam (C) poses with other military leaders after being sworn in as the transition leader and the leader of the High Command in Bissau on November 27, 2025. The Guinea-Bissau military appointed a general as the country's new leader Thursday for one year, a day after seizing power and arresting the president of the coup-prone west African nation. "I have just been sworn in to lead the High Command," General Horta N'Tam declared after taking the oath of office in a ceremony at the military's headquarters, AFP journalists observed. Dozens of heavily armed soldiers were deployed at the scene.