At the very least, seven individuals had been injured on Friday in clashes between police and supporters of the previous ruling get together of Guinea-Bissau.
In accordance with newsmen, the incident passed off within the capital Bissau on the headquarters of the African Celebration for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, reverse the presidential palace.
Police used tear fuel and truncheons to disperse the supporters of the PAIGC, which led Guinea-Bissau to independence from Portugal in 1974 and nonetheless contested the 2019 election of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.
“We deplore the occasions of this night. The safety forces broke into the headquarters of the PAIGC the place a gathering of the get together’s central committee was being held,” get together spokesman, Joao Bernardo Vieira, advised newsmen.
Celebration members had gathered to organise a celebration congress from Saturday to Tuesday however a rival of the get together chief, Domingos Simoes Pereira, took authorized motion to cease it from going down.
A neighborhood court docket prohibited the get together assembly and the rival get together determine, Bolom Conte, then referred to as on police to implement the court docket ruling.
“The judicial authorities require the PAIGC to respect the choice of the regional court docket of Bissau,” following the authorized motion introduced by Conte, stated Vieira.
Final month, masked gunmen raided the PAIGC headquarters, weeks after a failed coup try within the West African nation of two million individuals.
On February 1, closely armed males attacked authorities buildings in Bissau whereas the president was chairing a cupboard assembly. Eleven individuals had been killed within the assault.
AFP
