Guinea-Bissau’s capital appeared calm on Wednesday a day after President Umaro Sissoco Embalo survived a gun attack, as France joined condemnation for what has been called an attempted coup in one of Africa’s most unstable countries.
Heavily armed men on Tuesday afternoon surrounded government
buildings in the capital Bissau where Embalo and his prime minister
were believed to be attending a cabinet meeting.
Embalo, 49, later told reporters that he had been unharmed during a five-
hour gun battle, which he described as a plot to wipe out the
government.
The small West African state has suffered four military coups since
independence from Portugal in 1974.
