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Guinea-Bissau: the country’s instability
By African Bulletin on April 5, 2010
Massive cocaine trafficking and political assassinations are the factors behind the new “coup” of the army in Guinea-Bissau, where the Deputy Chief of Staff Ndjai Antonio, became on Thursday 1 April the strongman of the country, supported by former Navy Chief, the Vice-Admiral Bubo Na Tchuto. Apparently, the recurrent ejections of heads of state and army chiefs in Guinea-Bissau is a reflection of instability in this small country of West Africa, one of the poorest in the world, subject to many coups and civil war since independence in 1974.
Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior was arrested Thursday morning by soldiers at his office in Bissau before being placed under house arrest and finally set free on Friday in an atmosphere of uncertainty. Uncertainty in which a permanent struggle is emerging between factions within the army, capable of erresting a prime minister, or the President of Guinea-Bissau…