The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaru Shisoku Embalo, said that there was an attempted coup d'état in the country, but it failed. Reuters writes about it.

According to the head of state, this was not just a coup, but an attempt to kill the president, Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam and the entire cabinet. Embalo indicated that the attempt was well organized and could have been carried out by "people involved in the drug trade."

The President of the country noted that the army remained loyal to the current government. There are already arrests going on.

“Calm is back in Bissau!” Embalo wrote on his official Facebook page.

On February 2, shooting began near the Government Palace on the outskirts of the capital of the Republic of Bissau. After that, local bank branches closed, governmentered the city.

Reported wounded and dead.

Earlier, a military coup in Burkina Faso provoked discussions in the Western press about the alleged dispatch of Russian PMCs to this country. Of particular concern was the appearance at rallies in support of the new government of the flags of Russia and sharp criticism of France, which has a serious influence in its former colony. At the same time, Moscow is officially criticizing the very fact of a coup d'état in the republic. Does Russia have its own interests in Burkina Faso and are the new authorities ready to cooperate with Moscow - in the material. Ru".

bbabo.Net