The situation is very confused, this Tuesday, February 1, 2022, in Bissau. Shootings were reported in the city center near the country’s institutions. Explosions that caused a start of panic.
More information to come,
Automatic weapon fire was heard in the early afternoon around the government palace, in the middle of the extraordinary Council of Ministers. It brought together the President of the Republic, Umaro Sissaco Embalo, Prime Minister Nuno Gomes Nabiam and the rest of the government. The session was interrupted.
Since the news spread, there has been a stampede in the city center. Schools are closed and children have gone home.
Many military movements at this very moment in the Guinea-Bissau capital. Armed cordons were deployed around some official buildings. For the moment we do not know the intentions of the attackers.