Overview
- Brig. Gen. Denis N'Kanya announced on national TV the creation of a High Military Command to govern and the suspension of the constitution and the electoral process.
- President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was arrested in his office at the presidential palace, and he told media no violence was used.
- The chief of the general staff, Gen. Biage Na Ntan, his deputy, Gen. Mamadu Ture, and Interior Minister Botche Kande were also detained.
- Authorities closed external borders, imposed a nighttime curfew, halted media activity, and ordered civilian institutions to cease operations.
- Jeune Afrique reported the arrests of opposition leader Domingos Simões Pereira and candidate Fernando Dias de Costa, and the Nov. 28 results announcement has been put on hold.