Agency Report
Gunmen in Guinea-Bissau on Monday ransacked a private radio station critical of the government, a manager said, in an attack that follows a foiled coup in the West African country last week.
Masked assailants arrived at the station in the capital Bissau in 4×4s and started shooting and trashing radio equipment, according to one of its managers.
“They forced me to kneel down and hit me with the butt of the Kalashnikov,” said one of the managers of Capital FM, who declined to be named.
“A colleague was wounded trying to escape,” he added. “Our equipment was destroyed. We stopped broadcasting.”
Capital FM is highly critical of the government President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, 49, and is considered close to Guinea-Bissau’s formerly dominant African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).
Attacks on the station have become more common in recent years. In July 2020, unidentified gunmen also broke into the station and destroyed equipment.
