Public transport vehicles pick up passengers at a market in Bissau, on November 28, 2025. Life limped back to normal on Friday in the capital of volatile Guinea-Bissau after the west African nation’s fifth coup that came on the heels of presidential and parliamentary polls.
The military appointed General Horta N’Tam, the army’s chief of staff, as the country’s new leader for a transition period of one year after Wednesday’s putsch. The takeover came just one day before authorities had been due to announce the provisional results of the November 23 polls. There were vehicles and taxis along the main road from the port of the seaside capital Bissau to the presidential palace, as well as pedestrians (Photo by PATRICK MEINHARDT / AFP)