General Horta Inta-A appoints new prime minister amid growing condemnation of military coup in West African nation.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Guinea-Bissau\u2019s new military ruler has moved to consolidate power days after a coup deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.<\/p>\n In a decree on Friday, General Horta Inta-A announced the appointment of Finance Minister Ilidio Vieira Te as the West African country\u2019s new prime minister.<\/p>\n list of 3 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The people of Guinea-Bissau \u201cexpect a lot\u201d of their new leaders, Inta-A told Te during a brief swearing-in ceremony, saying he hoped the new military government and the prime minister would \u201ccontinue to work hand-in-hand\u201d.<\/p>\n Both Inta-A \u2013 who was sworn in as Guinea-Bissau\u2019s transitional president on Thursday \u2013 and Te are close to Embalo, the deposed president.<\/p>\n Te previously served in his government and as the campaign director for Embalo\u2019s party in last Sunday\u2019s presidential election.<\/p>\n Friday\u2019s announcement comes just days after military officers said they had taken \u201ctotal control\u201d of the country during a televised address on the eve of the expected release of provisional election results.<\/p>\n Embalo had been seeking re-election against his main challenger, Fernando Dias. Both candidates had declared victory in advance of the results, which have still not been released.<\/p>\n Regional and world leaders have condemned the military coup, one of several in Guinea-Bissau since it gained independence from Portugal in 1974.<\/p>\n The African Union announced on Friday it was suspending Guinea-Bissau \u201cwith immediate effect\u201d, shortly after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) froze Guinea-Bissau out of \u201call decision-making bodies\u201d.<\/p>\n United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned the military\u2019s \u201cunacceptable violation of democratic principles\u201d while the European Union urged \u201ca swift return to the constitutional order and the resumption of the electoral process\u201d.<\/p>\n The prime minister of Senegal, where Embalo has taken refuge since the coup, condemned the putsch as a \u201csham\u201d and called for the electoral process to be allowed to continue.<\/p>\n \u201cThe [electoral] commission must be able to declare the winner,\u201d Ousmane Sonko told lawmakers on Friday.<\/p>\n Dias, the opposition candidate, told the AFP news agency on Thursday that he believed he had beaten Embalo in Sunday\u2019s presidential election.\u00a0He alleged that Embalo had \u201corganised\u201d the power grab to prevent him from taking office.<\/p>\n Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who was in Guinea-Bissau during the coup as the head of a West African elections observer group, also accused Embalo of staging a \u201cceremonial coup\u201d to stay in power.<\/p>\n \u201cA military doesn\u2019t take over governments and allow the sitting president that they overthrew to address press conferences and announce that he has been arrested,\u201d Jonathan told reporters.<\/p>\n UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday that at least 18 people, including government officers, magistrates and opposition politicians, had been arbitrarily detained during the coup, and most were still being held incommunicado.<\/p>\n \u201cI am deeply alarmed by reports of human rights violations in Guinea-Bissau following the coup, including arbitrary arrests and detentions of Government officials and opposition leaders, as well as threats against and intimidation of media houses and journalists,\u201d Turk said in a statement.<\/p>\n He called for the immediate release of all those detained, as well as for the return of constitutional order.<\/p>\n \u201cThe military authorities must ensure they fully respect everyone\u2019s fundamental freedoms, including the right to peaceful assembly,\u201d Turk added.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, calm returned to the capital, Bissau, on Friday as the new military rulers lifted an overnight curfew that had been imposed during the coup.<\/p>\n People and vehicles were circulating through Bissau\u2019s streets after army checkpoints were lifted. The main stock exchange and markets in outlying districts, as well as commercial banks, have also reopened.<\/p>\n \u201cI resumed my work because if I stay home, I will have nothing to eat,\u201d Boubacar Embalo, a 25-year-old street vendor, told the news agency AFP.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n General Horta Inta-A appoints new prime minister amid growing condemnation of military coup in West African nation. Guinea-Bissau\u2019s new military ruler has moved to consolidate power days after a coup deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo. In a decree on Friday, General Horta Inta-A announced the appointment of Finance Minister Ilidio Vieira Te as the West […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3735,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Recommended Stories <\/h2>\n
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