BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) â€" A tip troops central attempted unsuccessfully to seize energy early Monday, an army central said, while a ill personality of this tiny, coup-prone West African republic is believed to be undergoing medical treatment abroad.
Army arch Antonio Indjai pronounced authorities had arrested navy arch Natchuto Bubo. Top officials were assembly to plead a conditions Monday evening.
"There was an attempted manoeuvre d'etat though a conditions is underneath a control of a army and government," Indjai said, giving no serve details.
Lawmaker Lucio Rodrigues pronounced a eventuality seemed to have small effect.
"Life is stability many as we would design for a day after Christmas," he said. "Cars are circulating, there are people on a street, a try hasn't had many of an outcome on a population."
Rodrigues combined that Indjai done a brief matter observant usually that in a early hours of Monday "an try was done to retreat a inherent order" though that "the conditions is now underneath control."
The reported coup attempt comes as President Malam Bacai Sanha has recently sought medical diagnosis in France. The personality was inaugurated in 2009 following a assassination of Guinea-Bissau's prior leader.
Sanha's health has been a theme of heated conjecture and he is famous to humour from diabetes. He has been hospitalized for prolonged stretches in Senegal and France with a supervision always describing a visits as routine.
A French central reliable in early Dec that Sanha was being treated in a Paris hospital. The Foreign Ministry on Monday declined to contend either he was still in France.
Since autonomy from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has been raid by a array of coups, troops revolts and domestic assassinations.
The country's former president, Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, was assassinated on Mar 2, 2009, hours after a conduct of a army was killed in a explosve explosion.
Less than a year later, seditious soldiers seized a conduct of a armed army and placed a primary apportion underneath residence detain in an apparent manoeuvre attempt.
The anarchy has in new years captivated South American drug traffickers, who have used a republic as a movement indicate for shipping heroin to Europe.
The assault and instability also have taken their fee on a country's mercantile development. The republic sits during a bottom of many mercantile and health indices. The infancy of people live but electricity or purify using water, and there are few pursuit opportunities for immature people. The normal life outlook in Guinea-Bissau is only 46 years.
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Associated Press author Jenny Barchfield contributed to this news from Paris.
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