Military Seizes Power in Africa’s First ‘Narco-State’
29th November 2025
A group of military officers has seized power in Guinea-Bissau and claimed to have arrested the president.
The coup came a day before the West African nation, one of the poorest in the world, with a booming cocaine trade, was scheduled to announce the provisional results of its presidential election.
The tiny country, wedged between Senegal and Guinea, has been marred by political instability and rocked by at least nine coups or attempted coups since gaining independence from Portugal in 1974.
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