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General sworn in as new Guinea-Bissau leader, ousted president arrives in Senegal

General sworn in as new Guinea-Bissau leader, ousted president arrives in Senegal

(VOVWORLD) - Guinea-Bissau’s military installed Major-General Horta Inta-a as transitional president on Thursday, a day after soldiers toppled the civilian leadership in a swift power grab made before the results of a weekend election could be announced.

The president who was ousted in the coup, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, arrived in Senegal aboard a special flight following an intervention by the West African regional bloc, Senegal's foreign ministry said in a statement late Thursday.

It was the ninth coup in West and Central Africa in five years.

The self-styled "High Military Command for the Restoration of Order" announced in a televised statement on Wednesday that they had seized power from Embalo.

They said the move came in response to a destabilisation plan involving politicians and drug barons, without going into more detail.

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