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Heavily armed masked gunmen<\/a> on Saturday raided the headquarters of Guinea-Bissau\u2019s former ruling party, according two members of the two party. This is coming just weeks after a failed coup attempt in the West African country.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Africa Today News, New York reports that the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which led Guinea-Bissau to independence from Portugal in 1974 is still contestin the 2019 election of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.<\/p>\n

Sabado de Pina, a PAIGC member, said masked gunmen arrived at party headquarters in the capital Bissau on Saturday and ‘sowed panic by beating the security guards’.<\/p>\n

‘Then they damaged the main door before breaking into our headquarters where they systematically searched,’ she told reporters.<\/p>\n

De Pina suggested that the gunmen were members of the security services. Fatima Martins, another party member, gave a similar account.<\/p>\n

The raid is coming on the heels of the failed coup attempt on February 1 in Guinea-Bissau, a notoriously unstable nation of around two million people.<\/p>\n

Read Also: <\/strong>UN Peace-Keeping Base In Darfur Looted By Gunmen<\/a><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That day, heavily armed men attacked government buildings in Bissau while the president was chairing a cabinet meeting. Eleven people were killed in the attack.<\/p>\n

Embalo later said he had escaped the five-hour gun battle and described the attack as a plot to wipe out the government.<\/p>\n

He has named a former head of the navy, as well as two other men, as being behind the coup attempt.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, ex-prime minister and PAIGC leader Domingos Simoes Pereira was also banned from leaving the country in connection with an investigation into an alleged 2021 putsch attempt.<\/p>\n

Pereira lost the 2019 election to Embalo, but bitterly contested the result.<\/p>\n

Embalo declared himself president without waiting for the outcome of the former prime minister\u2019s petition to the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

The 49-year-old president sacked the head of the navy on Friday, as well as a top army commander, for reasons that remain unclear.<\/p>\n

Africa Today News, New York reports that Guinea-Bissau, an impoverished country south of Senegal, has suffered four military coups since 1974, its most recent in 2012.<\/p>\n

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