The African Union, AU, has suspended Guinea-Bissau after the coup within the nation that overthrew President Umaro Embalo.
Chairman of AU, Mahamoud Youssouf, mentioned the union determined to droop Guinea-Bissau from its our bodies with fast impact.
DAILY POST stories that the regional physique’s determination got here hours after the Financial Neighborhood of West African States, ECOWAS, suspended the West African nation from its decision-making our bodies over the coup.
ECOWAS’ Mediation and Safety Council, MSC, took the choice after an emergency assembly late Thursday.
Recall that army officers took over energy in Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday, about three days after the nation’s disputed presidential and legislative elections.
The officers instantly suspended the nation’s electoral course of and closed its borders.
Additionally they stopped the announcement of the election outcomes and appointed the chief of employees of the military, Basic Horta N’Tam, because the nation’s new chief for one yr.
After initially being arrested by the army, Embalo fled to Senegal on Thursday.
The army takeover has been extensively criticised.
United Nations Secretary-Basic Antonio Guterres denounced the “unacceptable violation of democratic rules”.
Sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea, Guinea-Bissau has already skilled 4 coups and quite a few makes an attempt since gaining independence from Portugal in 1974. Its election outcomes are sometimes contested.
Among the many world’s poorest international locations, additionally it is a hub for drug trafficking between Latin America and Europe, a commerce facilitated by the nation’s lengthy historical past of political tumult.
Guinea-Bissau joins various different international locations that suffered suspension by the AU following coups throughout the continent, together with in Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Sudan, and, extra not too long ago, Madagascar.
