"Coup" in Guinea-Bissau

World | September 14, 2003, Sunday // 00:00

The army in the west African state of Guinea Bissau says it has seized power and dismissed the government. Soldiers announced they were setting up a transitional government to include "all national political orientations" to be headed by the armed forces chief of staff General Verissimo Correia Seabre. All government ministers have been ordered to report to a public building in the capital of the former Portuguese colony. Radio stations have broadcast a message from the army saying it had seized power because President Kumba Yala had failed to resolve the country's problems.

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