Overview
- General Horta N'Tam was sworn in on November 27 as transitional president for a one-year period after the military seized power.
- The junta named Ilidio Vieira Te, formerly finance minister under Umaro Sissoco Embalo, as prime minister on November 28.
- The African Union suspended Guinea-Bissau with immediate effect, following a similar move by ECOWAS to freeze the country out of decision-making bodies.
- ECOWAS formed a mediation team made up of the presidents of Cabo Verde, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo to engage the military leadership.
- U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres condemned the takeover and the EU urged a swift return to constitutional order, as Embalo took refuge in Senegal and opposition candidate Fernando Dias claimed victory from hiding.