GUINEA-BISSAU COUP: Why the Military Took Power in Africa's 'First Narco-State'
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So let's set the scene for you. The date is November 26, 2025. Right.
We're in Bissau, which is the capital of Guinea-Bissau, and the city has this really fragile calm hanging over it.
That’s because it's just three days after a very, very heated presidential election.
And then around one o'clock in the afternoon, local time, that calm just disappears. Heavy gunfire, erupts right in the political heart of the city.
And within hours, a group of military officers appear on state TV.
And they announce they've seized, total control of the country. The timing is just, it's extraordinary.
This happens just before the provisional election results were even supposed to come out.
And you had both candidates, the incumbent president and the challenger, already claiming they'd won.
So the country was already in a constitutional crisis, and the military just walked right into it.
In this episode of African Biographics, we look at the recent coup in Guinea-Bissau to understand why the the army stepped and grabbed power.
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