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.
TGunfire was heard Wednesday outside Guinea-Bissau’s presidential palace just three days after the country’s presidential and legislative elections, with both major candidates have claimed victory, an AFP journalist on the scene witnessed.
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.
