{"id":284678,"date":"2025-11-26T16:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284678\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T16:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T16:50:08","slug":"guinea-bissau-coup-soldiers-say-they-have-taken-power-as-president-umaro-sissoco-embalo-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/284678\/","title":{"rendered":"Guinea-Bissau coup: Soldiers say they have taken power as President Umaro Sissoco Embal\u00f3 arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The results were expected on Thursday &#8211; both Embal\u00f3 and his closest rival Fernando Dias have claimed victory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On Wednesday, witnesses in Bissau heard gunfire at around 13:00 GMT but it was not immediately clear who was involved in the shooting or if there were any casualties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hundreds of people on foot and in vehicles fled, seeking shelter as the shots rang out, the AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Later on, General Denis N&#8217;Canha, head of the military household at the presidential palace, read out a statement declaring a takeover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said officers had formed &#8220;the High Military Command for the Restoration of Order&#8221; and closed the border.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The results were expected on Thursday &#8211; both Embal\u00f3 and his closest rival Fernando Dias have claimed victory.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-284678","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}