Ines Silva

Tired Mom | Freelance Journalist | Political Analyst & Reporter on Africa @BBCMonitoring & @BBCAfrica

[Ines Silva @InesRocks]

@bmay I thought that was Greta

[Ines Silva @InesRocks]

@portucalense_pt é o Irã Costa

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Tens of thousands of people in Mozambique are being rescued as rising waters continue to devastate the southern African nation - the worst flooding in a generation.

https://t.co/Bmp6F5VbuD

[Justice Frontil Equitas @justicefrontil]

🚨 ⚠️🇲🇿MOZAMBIQUE CUT IN TWO: EN1, THE COUNTRY’S ONLY NORTH–SOUTH LINK, WASHED AWAY

The EN1 has been cut off by the force of floodwaters in the 3 de Fevereiro area, Manhiça District, Maputo Province.
This is the only road connecting the entire country from north to south. Mozambique has had no alternative national route since colonial times.

[Zenaida Machado @zenaidamz]

More than 100 people have died in what could probably be Mozambique’s worst floods in decades. Many more people are missing. River water levels continue to rise and Maputo is isolated from the rest of the country. A new warning for a tropical storm was set this week. More rain - a lot of rain - is expected next week.

[Kennedy Wandera @KennedyWandera_]

Guinea-Bissau's🇬🇼 military junta adopts a 12-month transitional charter that blocks the interim President Major-General Horta Inta-a, and Prime Minister Illidio Vieira Te from running in the next elections, two weeks after officers staged a coup that suspended the constitution.

The Military High Command will control legal and institutional reforms during the transition, including drafting revisions to the suspended constitution, setting up a new Constitutional Court, changing regulations for political parties and overseeing the appointment of new electoral officials, according to the charter.

A 65-member National Transition Council, including 10 senior army officers representing the Military High Command, will serve as a transitional legislative body, the charter says.

The 29-article charter requires presidential and legislative elections to be held at the end of the one-year transitional period, with the polling date to be set by the transitional president.

Following a coup in Guinea in 2021, a transitional charter stipulated that coup leader Mamady Doumbouya would not be able to run in that country's next elections.

However the country adopted a new constitution in September that dropped that provision, and Doumbouya is on the ballot in an election scheduled for December 28.

Army officers in Guinea-Bissau, branding themselves the Military High Command, toppled President Umaro Sissoco Embalo on November 26 and installed Major-General Horta Inta-a as interim president the following day.

Source: @Reuters.

[RFI @RFI]

Coup d'Etat en Guinée-Bissau: l'opposition demande à la Cédéao de faire preuve de la même fermeté qu'au Bénin
➡️ https://t.co/uaiwPKm5Lu

[Jeune Afrique @jeune_afrique]

Guinée-Bissau : après le Congo, Embaló trouve refuge au Maroc https://t.co/q7iTO7wxin

[Ines Silva @InesRocks]

Happy to have contributed to this deep-dive into the current political crisis in Guinea-Bissau

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Guinea-Bissau’s military announced a takeover last week - but was it a real coup or a political ‘sham’?

The country has seen at least nine coups and attempts since 1974, yet this one has raised unusual scepticism among analysts. https://t.co/tmN9XZIwr3

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Nigeria has given protection to Guinea-Bissau presidential candidate Fernando Dias after the coup halted election results and both leading contenders claimed victory. Ecowas is urging the junta to step aside as tensions deepen.
https://t.co/Wtny9gb2my

[Charles Onyango-Obbo @cobbo3]

If the current pace of coups continues, analysts estimate that by 2030 at least 12 African countries could be under direct military control, marking a significant expansion of junta influence across the continent.
With the November 26, 2025, putsch in Guinea-Bissau, 7 African nations are now under direct military rule - Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Guinea, Sudan, Madagascar and Guinea-Bissau. With nearly a tenth of the continent under junta control, this is likely the highest concentration of military‑ruled states in decades.
General Horta Inta-A (photo), in his early 60s, was named Guinea-Bissau’s new junta leader, breaking the recent pattern of younger officers seizing power; only Niger’s Abdourahamane Tchiani, about 64, and Sudan’s Abdel Fattah al‑Burhan, about 65, are older. Among the other leaders, Assimi Goïta of Mali is 42, Mamady Doumbouya of Guinea 41, Ibrahim Traoré of Burkina Faso 37, and Madagascar’s Michael Randrianirina 51.
Meanwhile, ousted Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo arrived in Senegal on Thursday on a special flight, the country’s foreign ministry said.

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

Guinea-Bissau's deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has arrived in neighbouring Senegal following his release by military forces that toppled his government this week, Senegal's authorities have announced. https://t.co/Jjsa1PAeil

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

UPDATE: Guinea-Bissau’s military says it has taken full control of the country after detaining President Umaro Sissoco Embaló. The officers say they’ve suspended the electoral process and closed all borders indefinitely. It’s still unclear whether anyone else was detained along with the president.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

CLAIM: An attempted coup is being reported in Guinea-Bissau

Gunfire has been heard in the capital, Bissau, amid claims that President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has been detained.

[Ines Silva @InesRocks]

Group of military officers seizes control of Guinea-Bissau https://t.co/KO5AkR3Wu2

[Reuters Africa @ReutersAfrica]

Angolan President Joao Lourenco, current chair of the African Union, on Monday called for fairer debt restructuring tools and innovative financing instruments to support Africa's development. https://t.co/dWeoBXyRJ6

[Ines Silva @InesRocks]

@goodreads The Nightingale, and Birdsong

[Ines Silva @InesRocks]

It was a pleasure to contribute to the discussion on the upcoming general elections in #GuineaBissau with the team at @rdpafrica . A great deal is at stake for the future of governance in Bissau, at a time of rising tensions and political polarization.
https://t.co/26zThtVyZ5

[BBC News Africa @BBCAfrica]

A French energy company is facing war crimes allegations, which it denies, over a massacre near its multi-billon dollar international gas project in northern Mozambique in 2021. https://t.co/0HrHd0Sxoi

[Ines Silva @InesRocks]

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