Guinea-Bissau’s president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has been arrested and is being held at general-staff headquarters where he is being “well-treated”, a military source told AFP Wednesday following a coup in which officers announced taking “total control”.
Military officers have suspended the electoral process in Guinea-Bissau, where Embalo had been favoured to win a second term in last Sunday’s presidential election.
A senior officer additionally confirmed the arrest to AFP, adding that Embalo had been detained “with the chief of staff and the minister of the interior”.
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