The highlights this week: African politicians claim that Guinea-Bissau’s coup was staged, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda are set to sign another peace deal , and a Tunisian court sentences opposition figures to years in jail.
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The highlights this week: African politicians claim that Guinea-Bissau’s coup was staged, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda are set to sign another peace deal, and a Tunisian court sentences opposition figures to years in jail.
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Faux Coup?
Guinea-Bissau’s military installed Gen. Horta Inta-a as interim president last Thursday after seizing power in a coup that many observers and politicians are calling a “sham.”
Inta-a and Finance Minister Ilidio Vieira Te, who has been newly appointed as prime minister, are set to lead a one-year transition period in the country. Both men are close to the deposed president, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, who claimed victory in the country’s contested November elections before he was ousted. Te led Embaló’s campaign, and Inta-a was promoted to chief of staff of Guinea-Bissau’s army by Embaló in 2023.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who was in Guinea-Bissau for the November vote as a regional observer, suggested that Embaló knew he had lost and arranged a “ceremonial coup” one day before the official results could be announ
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