Senegal’s International Ministry says Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived within the nation a day after he was deposed in a navy coup.
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Guinea-Bissau’s deposed president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has arrived in Senegal, the nation’s Ministry of International Affairs has confirmed, a day after a group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau seized energy in a coup.
Senegal’s International Ministry stated in a statement on Thursday evening that Embalo had arrived in Senegal after authorities engaged with actors in Guinea-Bissau to attempt to safe his launch.
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Embalo reached Senegal on board an plane chartered by the Senegalese authorities, it stated.
“The federal government of the Republic of Senegal reaffirms its readiness to work alongside ECOWAS, the African Union and all related companions, with a view to supporting dialogue, stability and the speedy restoration of constitutional order and democratic legitimacy on this brotherly nation,” the assertion stated.
Embalo was deposed on Wednesday after navy officers introduced they’d seized “whole management” of Guinea-Bissau forward of the anticipated launch of presidential election ends in the West African nation.
Embalo had been vying for re-election in opposition to his most important challenger, Fernando Dias. Each had declared victory forward of the discharge of the provisional outcomes.
However the primary opposition PAIGC social gathering was barred from presenting a presidential candidate, elevating criticism from civil society teams, which stated the election was illegitimate.
Dubbing themselves the “Excessive Army Command for the Restoration of Order”, the navy officers learn out a press release on tv on Wednesday, declaring that they’d ordered the speedy suspension of the electoral course of “till additional discover”.
Additionally they ordered the closure of Guinea-Bissau’s borders and an in a single day curfew.
On Thursday, Common Horta Inta-A was sworn in because the country’s transitional president, defending the navy takeover by saying that there had been “ample [evidence] to justify the operation”.
However the coup – one in all a number of to hit Guinea-Bissau for the reason that nation gained independence from Portugal in 1974 – has spurred widespread concern, together with from regional our bodies.
The chairperson of the African Union Fee condemned the scenario earlier on Thursday, calling for the speedy and unconditional launch of Embalo and all different detained officers.
Mahmoud Ali Youssouf additionally urged “all events to train the utmost restraint with the intention to forestall any additional deterioration of the scenario”.
