"Guinea-Bissau's army announced on Friday that it had detained the leader of the security forces unit responsible for overnight clashes in the capital and asserted that the situation was now under control. Throughout the night and into Friday morning, gunfire erupted in Bissau during confrontations between members of the national guard and presidential guard special forces.
The gunfire ensued following the release of two government members by national guard soldiers, who had been questioned by the police on Thursday.
The two men had been summoned by the judiciary on the same day and taken into custody. The reinforcement of presidential security comes at a time when coups or attempted coups are multiplying in West Africa, including in Gabon, Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso, Guinea and, last week, Sierra Leone." AN
"A Western-driven campaign to force Niger’s acting government to restore
former President Mohamed Bazoum to power following last week’s military
coup could bubble up into a wider conflict pitting NATO powers against
Russia and China......“We are now at the door of a world African war,” African Freedom Institute President Franklin Nyamsi said.....ECOWAS and the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) imposed
sanctions on the new Nigerien government last week, suspending all
financial transactions and freezing the country’s assets in
ECOWAS-member states. Regional development banks cut off all assistance,
as did the EU and France. The US and the African Union also threatened
to follow suit. ECOWAS demanded that the junta restore Bazoum, who has
been under house arrest since the coup.....A military intervention by ECOWAS would be a “declaration of war” not only against Niger, but also against dissenting members, including Burkina Faso, Mali and possibly Guinea....The two ECOWAS factions – pro-NATO vs. pan-African – might not only
fight each other, but also seek assistance from their powerful allies,
Nyamsi said. Niger’s backers would likely call on Russia, China and Iran
for help. Possibly they want to export a world war in Africa between, finally, the two main blocs of the old Cold War.” RT
