2023 Guinea-Bissau clashes

When

30 Nov 2023 – 1 Dec 2023

Kind

Event

Coordinates

11.86° N, 15.58° W

Placed at the town its text puts it in, Bissau.

Clashes break out in Bissau between government forces and units of the National Guard who had released two ministers accused of corruption from detention. The clashes end with the arrest of National Guard commander Colonel Victor Tchongo and the recapture of the two ministers. President Umaro Sissoco Embaló calls the events as an attempted coup.

Attempted coup in Guinea-Bissau

On 30 November 2023, clashes broke out in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, between government forces and units of the National Guard who had released two ministers accused of corruption from detention. The clashes led to the arrest of National Guard commander Colonel Victor Tchongo. President Umaro Sissoco Embaló described the events as an attempted coup.

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