Guinea-Bissau’s deposed president travels to Congo’s Brazzaville: Reports

Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrives successful the Republic of Congo aft archetypal seeking refuge successful Senegal pursuing this week’s coup.

Guinea-Bissau’s erstwhile president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has travelled to the Republic of Congo, the AFP and Associated Press quality agencies are reporting, days aft helium was deposed successful a subject coup.

Califa Soares Cassama, Embalo’s main of staff, confirmed to AP that the erstwhile president was successful the Congolese capital, Brazzaville.

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Unnamed Congolese authorities sources besides told AFP that Embalo was successful Brazzaville.

Embalo had initially sought refuge successful neighbouring Senegal aft a radical of subject officers connected Wednesday announced that they had taken “full control” of Guinea-Bissau up of the merchandise of provisional statesmanlike predetermination results.

The existent motives for the coup stay unclear, with speculation and conspiracy theories circulating, including that it was carried retired with Embalo’s blessing.

The coup has sparked a question of planetary condemnation, with determination leaders and the United Nations calling connected Guinea-Bissau’s new subject leaders to reconstruct law bid and let the electoral process to implicit its work.

Senegalese Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko condemned the events arsenic a “sham” successful remarks to lawmakers connected Friday.

“We privation the electoral process to continue,” Sonko said. “The [electoral] committee indispensable beryllium capable to state the winner.”

Many of Guinea-Bissau’s caller subject leaders are adjacent to Embalo, including General Horta Inta-A, who was named arsenic the transitional president earlier this week, and Ilidio Vieira Te, who was appointed premier minister.

Te had antecedently served arsenic concern curate successful Embalo’s government.

On Saturday, Inta-a appointed a 28-member government, astir of whom are allies of the deposed president.

Separately, the country’s main absorption party, PAIGC, said successful a connection that its office had been “illegally invaded by heavy equipped militia groups” successful the capital, Bissau.

The enactment denounced the raid connected Saturday arsenic “an onslaught connected stability, ideology and the regularisation of law” successful Guinea-Bissau.

PAIGC had been barred from presenting a statesmanlike campaigner successful past Sunday’s election, a determination that drew disapproval from civilian rights groups who denounced an evident crackdown connected the opposition.

Both Embalo and his main challenger, Fernando Dias, had declared triumph up of the merchandise of the provisional ballot results, which had been acceptable for Thursday.

No results person been announced since the coup.