Military authorities in Guinea-Bissau have reopened the country’s borders, 24 hours after seizing power and dismantling the electoral process in the coup-prone West African nation.
The military on Wednesday declared that they had assumed full control of the country, announcing the suspension of all electoral activities and an immediate closure of national borders.
General Lansana Mansali, Inspector General of the Armed Forces, reversed Wednesday’s closure of all land, air, and sea entry points, saying “All borders are now open”.
The announcement came amid heavy gunfire that rang out near the presidential palace earlier in the day, with men in military uniform taking over the main road leading to the building.
The head of the presidential military office, General Denis N’Canha, while addressing journalists on Thursday said a command composed of all branches of the armed forces, was taking over the leadership of the country until further notice.
N’Canha declared that he had uncovered a plan to destabilise the country involving national drug lords that had included the introduction of weapons into the country to alter the constitutional order.
Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.
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