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5:38 CAT | 26 Nov 2025
Brigadier General Denis N'Canha (C), head of the military office of the presidency gives a press conference at the General Staff of the Armed Forces on November 26, 2025. [Photo: AFP/ Patrick Meinhardt]
- Guinea-Bissau military officers on Wednesday announced that all borders were closed after they seized total control of the country, just three days after presidential and legislative elections in which both leading candidates claimed victory. Hours earlier, gunfire rang out near the presidential palace, an AFP journalist said.
Military officers in Guinea-Bissau announced Wednesday they were taking “total control” of the country while suspending its electoral process and closing its borders, three days after the poverty-stricken west African nation’s legislative and presidential elections.
Earlier in the day gunfire was heard near the coup-prone country’s presidential palace as men in military uniform took over the main road leading to the building.
Military personnel made the announcement by reading a statement at army headquarters in the capital, Bissau, AFP journalists observed on the scene.
Source: France24 with AFP
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