Guinea Bissau's Major-General Horta Nta Na Man is sworn in as the transition leader and the leader of the High Command in Bissau on Thursday. Patrick Meinhardt/AFP/Getty Images Bissau, Guinea-Bissau Reuters —

Guinea-Bissau’s military installed Major-General Horta Nta Na Man as transitional president on Thursday, an army statement said, a day after soldiers toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo in a swift power grab that followed a disputed election.

The president who was ousted in the coup, Umaro Sissoco

Embalo, arrived in Senegal aboard a special flight following an

intervention by the West African regional bloc, Senegal’s

foreign ministry said in a statement late Thursday.

It was the ninth coup in West and Central Africa in five

years and continued a pattern of instabi

See Full Page