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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>At least six people were killed in a failed attempt to overthrow Guinea-Bissau\u2019s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, state radio said yesterday. The dead in Tuesday\u2019s assault included four assailants and two members of the presidential guard, it said. Embalo had announced on Tuesday night that the situation was under control after gunfire rang out for more than five hours near a government compound where he was holding a cabinet meeting.<\/p>\n

Guinea Bissau, which has a population of about 2 million, has witnessed 10 coups or attempted coups since independence from Portugal in 1974. Only one democratically elected president has completed a full term.<\/p>\n

West Africa has been hit by a string of military takeovers over the past 18 months \u2013 including two in Mali, one in Guinea and one in Burkina Faso just last week \u2013 leading analysts to warn about \u201ccoup contagion\u201d.<\/p>\n

The context appeared different in Guinea-Bissau. It remains unclear who was behind the attack but Embalo suggested it was linked to the government\u2019s fight against drug trafficking rather than an army plan to seize power.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t just a coup. It was an attempt to kill the president, the prime minister and all the cabinet,\u201d he said on Tuesday night. The attack \u201cwas well prepared and organised and could also be related to people involved in drug trafficking\u201d, he said, without giving details.<\/p>\n

Guinea-Bissau is a major transit point for Latin American cocaine headed for Europe, contributing to its perpetual instability. It has been mired in political deadlock and infighting.<\/p>\n

The main road linking the city centre of the capital Bissau to the airport remained closed on Wednesday morning since it goes past the presidential palace, but banks and shops had reopened and people were venturing out, a Reuters reporter said.<\/p>\n

Ecowas Commission president Jean-Claude Kassi Brou said in a post on Twitter that the army was responsible for the coup attempt. \u201cI welcome the failure of the military coup attempt in Guinea-Bissau, which was an attack on democracy and the people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

France\u2019s ambassador to Guinea-Bissau, Terence Wills, visited Embalo on Wednesday and congratulated him for the \u201csang-froid\u201d he showed during the attack.<\/p>\n

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