President leaves Guinea-Bissau as general takes power after coup

Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has left the country for Senegal after being detained during a military coup, the government in Dakar said on Thursday, as a lead opponent accused him of arranging the uprising.
The military in volatile Guinea-Bissau earlier appointed a general as the country’s new leader, a day after seizing power and derailing the announcement of election results.
Opposition candidate Fernando Dias da Costa told Agence France-Presse he believed he had won Sunday’s…