Umaro Djau

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embaló said an attempted military coup to overthrow him had failed on Tuesday, and called for calm across the country during a national address broadcast on Radio TV Bantaba.

A Guinean military officer broadcast a statement Sunday announcing that Guinea’s Constitution has been dissolved in an apparent coup.

Umaro Djau writes that the international community must act quickly to defend the rights of African slaves in Libya, whose dignity has been stripped from them by smugglers and thieves.

The son of Togo’s late dictator has been re-elected president, election officials said, extending the family’s four-decade rule in the west African nation.