Last updated on August 14th, 2022 at 09:28 am
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A Senior Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea-Bissau, Suzi Barbosa, has revealed how President Umaru Sissoco Embalo came close from being ousted last week.
“They attempted to kill President Embalo. They destroyed the presidential palace with bazookas, killed 11 young people. It took about five hours to restore order. It was a nightmare ,” Barbosa told Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari on Sunday on the sidelines of the African Union Summit of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
She gave graphic presentation of the attempt to overthrow the constitutional order in her country.
The coup was aborted by loyalist forces, but it was another alarm bell that West Africa was become more unstable than in the past 20 years.
The Nigerian presidency said President Buhari “pledged to consult with other ECOWAS leaders on how full normalcy could be restored to the embattled country at the shortest possible time.”
