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In Guinea-Bissau, an opposition leader arrested by the military junta was transferred to house arrest
The military junta that seized power in Guinea-Bissau after presidential elections last year has released Domingos Simões Pereira, one of the opposition leaders and former Prime Minister of the country, from house arrest. He was detained in the early days of the military coup at the end of November last year. Reuters reports this.
In a letter addressed to members of the West African regional union ECOWAS, General Horta Nta Na Man, who was appointed transitional president for one year after the coup, promised to form a compromise transitional government that would include three representatives of the PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) party, led by Pereira. Pereira himself has been charged with economic crimes.
Three more portfolios should go to the Party of Social Regeneration (PRS), whose leader, Fernando Dias de Costa, ran in the presidential elections against the country's past president, Oumarou Sissoko Embalou, who was overthrown by the military. After the coup, Dias hid for some time in the Nigerian embassy, but had already left it.
On November 23, 2025, general parliamentary and presidential elections were held in Guinea-Bissau. Both incumbent President Embalu and opposition candidate Fernando Dias de Costa declared victory. The official results were supposed to be published on November 27, but the day before a group of military officers seized power in the country.