Gunmen in Guinea-Bissau on Monday ransacked a private radio station critical of the government in an attack that follows a foiled coup in the West African country last week.
Masked assailants arrived at the station in the capital Bissau and started shooting and trashing radio equipment, according to one of its managers.
The radio station, Capital FM is highly critical of the government led by President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, and considered close to Guinea-Bissau’s formerly dominant African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, PAIGC.
Attacks on the station have become more common in recent years.
It would be recalled that in July 2020, unidentified gunmen also broke into the station and destroyed equipment.
Guinea-Bissau, a coastal state of around two million people south of Senegal, has suffered four military coups since 1974, its most recent in 2012.
