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 Gambia detains Guinea Bissau refugees 2012-05-29 20:07
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Banjul - Gambia's immigration ministry said on Tuesday Guinea-Bissau's
former army chief, elections chief and ousted interior minister were being
detained "for security reasons" after fleeing to Banjul.

Former army chief Jose Zamora Induta, elections commission chief Desejado
Da Costa and Fernando Gomes, who was interior minister in the government
overthrown in the country's latest coup last month, fled Guinea-Bissau over
the weekend.

Gambia's immigration department spokesperson Ba Ensa Jawara told AFP the
three, who were reported to have passed through Senegal's southern
Casamance region, "arrived in the country early on Saturday morning and are
currently being held".

He said he could not give further details on the reasons for detaining the
three.

"For security reasons, they are currently being held," he added.

The three had sought refuge in the European Union mission in Bissau after
the April 12 coup, which aborted a presidential election ahead of a second
round of voting.

Induta was ousted as military chief two years ago by General Antonio
Indjai, considered the man behind the latest coup in the west African
nation, where decades of power struggles between the army and state have
caused chronic instability.

Last week coup leaders vowed to return to their barracks after transitional
authorities formed a new government including a colonel who joined the coup
but excluding the former ruling party.

A regional peace force has also started deploying in the country - which
has become a hub for cocaine smuggling from Latin America to Europe - in an
attempt to help the transitional authorities stabilise it and organise
elections in a year.

- AFP


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