FILE PHOTO: A man uses his mobile phone beside army soldiers after they deposed President Kabore in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, January 24, 2022. REUTERS/Vincent Bado
DAKAR (Reuters) - An attempted coup was believed to be underway in Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday. The identity of the assailants and the status of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo were not immediately clear.
This would mark the fifth military coup in the past year in West and Central Africa, a region once known as the continent's "coup belt".
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