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General Horta Inta-A appoints new prime minister amid growing condemnation of military coup in West African nation.
Guinea-Bissau’s new military ruler has moved to consolidate power days after a coup deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embalo.
In a decree on Friday, General Horta Inta-A announced the appointment of Finance Minister Ilidio Vieira Te as the West African country’s new prime minister.
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The people of Guinea-Bissau “expect a lot” of their new leaders, Inta-A told Te during a brief swearing-in ceremony, saying he hoped the new military government and the prime minister would “continue to work hand-in-hand”.
Both Inta-A – who was sworn in as Guinea-Bissau’s transitional president on Thursday – and Te are close to Embalo, the deposed president.
Te previously served in his government and as the campaign director for Embalo’s party in last Sunday’s presidential election.
Friday’s announcement comes just days after military officers said they had taken “total control” of the country during a televised address on the eve of the expected release of provisional election results.
Embalo had been seeking re-election against his main challenger, Fernando Dias. Both candidates had declared victory in advance of the results, which have still not been released.
Regional and world leaders have condemned the military coup, one of several in Guinea-Bissau since it gained independence from Portugal in 1974.
The African Union announced on Friday it was suspending Guinea-Bissau “with immediate effect”, shortly after the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) froze Guinea-Bissau out of “all decision-making bodies”.
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres also condemned the military’s “unacceptable violation of democratic principles” while the European Union urged “a swift return to the constitutional order and the resumption of the electoral process”.
The prime minister of Senegal, where Embalo has taken refuge since the coup, condemned the putsch as a “sham” and called for the electoral process to be allowed to continue.
“The [electoral] commission must be able to declare the winner,” Ousmane Sonko told lawmakers on Friday.
Dias, the opposition candidate, told the AFP news agency on Thursday that he believed he had beaten Embalo in Sunday’s presidential election. He alleged that Embalo had “organised” the power grab to prevent him from taking office.
Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, who was in Guinea-Bissau during the coup as the head of a West African elections observer group, also accused Embalo of staging a “ceremonial coup” to stay in power.
“A military doesn’t take over governments and allow the sitting president that they overthrew to address press conferences and announce that he has been arrested,” Jonathan told reporters.
UN human rights chief Volker Turk said on Friday that at least 18 people, including government officers, magistrates and opposition politicians, had been arbitrarily detained during the coup, and most were still being held incommunicado.
“I am deeply alarmed by reports of human rights violations in Guinea-Bissau following the coup, including arbitrary arrests and detentions of Government officials and opposition leaders, as well as threats against and intimidation of media houses and journalists,” Turk said in a statement.
He called for the immediate release of all those detained, as well as for the return of constitutional order.
“The military authorities must ensure they fully respect everyone’s fundamental freedoms, including the right to peaceful assembly,” Turk added.
Meanwhile, calm returned to the capital, Bissau, on Friday as the new military rulers lifted an overnight curfew that had been imposed during the coup.
People and vehicles were circulating through Bissau’s streets after army checkpoints were lifted. The main stock exchange and markets in outlying districts, as well as commercial banks, have also reopened.
“I resumed my work because if I stay home, I will have nothing to eat,” Boubacar Embalo, a 25-year-old street vendor, told the news agency AFP.
Airbus SE cautioned that a large portion of its active A320 jetliner family fleet will require a software fix after a recent incident involving a Jetblue Airways Corp. airliner revealed that “intense solar radiation” could risk corrupting data that’s critical to maintaining functioning flight controls.
The company said a significant number of its A320 fleet, encompassing about 6,000 jets in total, may be impacted by the required fix, according to a statement sent by the European planemaker on Friday.
“Airbus acknowledges these recommendations will lead to operational disruptions to passengers and customers,” the company said.
The advisory follows an incident on Oct. 30 involving a Jetblue aircraft that was flying from Cancun to Newark, New Jersey, that suffered a computer glitch that resulted in a sudden, unexpected downward pitch without pilot input. Nobody was injured, and the jet diverted to Tampa, Florida. A later investigation uncovered that one of the plane’s elevator-aileron computers — known as ELAC 2 — had malfunctioned.
The finding risks becoming a significant headache for Airbus, given the A320 family is the company’s by far most widely flown aircraft. According to people familiar with the situation, most of the jets can receive an uncomplicated update from the cockpit with minimal downtime.
But about 1,000 older jets will need an actual hardware upgrade and will have to be grounded for the duration of the maintenance, said the people, asking not to be identified discussing non-public findings.
The manufacturer, based in Toulouse in southern France, said it’s requesting a so-called Alert Operators Transmission (AOT) to implement the fixes, and that the AOT will be reflected in an emergency directive by the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, the region’s regulator.
Airbus declined to comment on the details and the duration of the maintenance measures. The EASA directive will likely contain more information on the exact fix and the extent of the upgrades.
The A320 is the competing aircraft to Boeing Co. 737 model, and the two jetliner families are the workhorses of the civil aviation industry. Airbus has already had to contend with engine issues on its newer A320neo jets, involving those built by Pratt & Whitney, that have forced hundreds of jets to be taken out of service temporarily for maintenance.
The A320 is flown using so-called fly-by-wire system, which rely on electronic inputs rather than hydraulic mechanisms. The ELAC system, which stands for Elevator Aileron Computers, helps manage critical flight parameters such as stabilizer trip and ensures the aircraft remains within its prescribed flight envelope by preventing excessive or accidental inputs.
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ReutersGuinea-Bissau’s deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has arrived in neighbouring Senegal following his release by the military forces who toppled his government this week, Senegal’s authorities have announced.
It follows negotiations by the regional West African bloc Ecowas to secure his transfer amid rising tensions in Guinea-Bissau.
Senegal’s foreign ministry said in a statement that Embaló had landed in the country “safe and sound” on a chartered military flight late on Thursday.
The military in Guinea-Bissau has already sworn in a new transitional leader, Gen Horta N’Tam, who will rule the coup-prone country for a year.
Wednesday’s coup came a day before authorities were due to announce the provisional results of a presidential and parliamentary election.
The military has suspended the electoral process and blocked the release of the results.
It said it was acting to thwart a plot by unnamed politicians who had “the support of a well-known drug baron” to destabilise the country, and imposed a night-time curfew.
Sandwiched between Senegal and Guinea, the coup-prone country is known as a drug-trafficking hub where the military has been influential since it gained independence from Portugal in 1974.
A mother of three told the BBC it was not the first military takeover she had lived through, nonetheless it had came as a surprise as people were expecting to hear about the outcome of the election, which had an estimated voter turnout of more than 65%.
“We heard gunfire. We ran away. We tried to pack our bags to go home,” she said.
Another resident of the capital, Bissau, said he was unhappy about the situation.
“This doesn’t help anyone. Because it puts the country into chaos,” Mohamed Sylla told the BBC.
But reactions have been mixed, with some residents praising the army and hoping for an orderly transition.
“I am not against the military regime as long as they improve the living conditions in the country,” Suncar Gassama told the BBC.
“Guinea-Bissau is a very rich country where all the conditions exist for a good life. I cannot understand why Guineans always have violence in their minds and are shooting everywhere. People must fight for the establishment of democracy.”
Both Embaló and his closest rival Fernando Dias had claimed victory in Sunday’s presidential poll.
Dias was supported by former Prime Minister Domingos Pereira, whose PAIGC party, the liberation movement that ended Portuguese colonial rule, had been barred from fielding a candidate.
Government sources earlier told the BBC that Dias, Pereira and Interior Minister Botché Candé had also been detained.
The military junta has banned public protests and “all disturbing actions of peace and stability in the country”.
Tension remained high in Bissau on Thursday, with most shops and markets closed as soldiers patrolled the streets, news agency AFP reported.
Earlier that day, Gen N’Tam, Guinea-Bissau army’s chief of staff, was named the country’s new leader for a period of one year.
He said in a speech that the military had acted “to block operations that aimed to threaten our democracy”.
Shortly after the swearing-in, the military reopened land, air and sea borders that were shut when it announced the coup.
Some local civil society groups have accused Embaló of masterminding a “simulated coup” against himself with the help of the military, saying it was a ruse to block election results from coming out in case he lost.
Dias made similar claims, saying it was an “organised coup”. He told AFP that he considered himself the president-elect of Guinea-Bissau and believed he won roughly 52% of the vote.
Embaló has not responded to the allegations.
The 53-year-old leader has said he has survived multiple coup attempts during his time in office. However, his critics have previously accused him of fabricating crises in order to crack down on dissent.
He dissolved parliament after one such coup attempt in December 2023 and the country has not had a sitting legislature since then.
Persistent political infighting had left Embaló’s administration increasingly exposed, explains Beverly Ochieng, West Africa analyst at the intelligence firm Control Risks.
“Over the course of Embaló’s presidency, the legislature, judiciary and several state institutions have either been rendered non-operational or are functioning well below capacity,” she told the BBC.
AFP via Getty ImagesPolitical analyst Ryan Cummings said the president’s previous actions had fuelled suspicions that the coup attempt was orchestrated to pave the way for his return to power under military oversight.
However, he told the BBC it was also “highly plausible” that the armed forces had acted independently to prevent a deeper political stalemate.
It was Sierra Leonean President Julius Maada Bio, the current Ecowas chair, who had contacted the Guinea-Bissau military on Wednesday to secure assurance for Embaló’s protection, according to Sierra Leone’s Foreign Minister Timothy Musa Kabba.
When asked about Embaló physical health on the BBC’s Newsday programme on Friday, the minister declined to comment but said the priority was ensuring his safe evacuation from Guinea-Bissau.
Ecowas leaders have suspended Guinea-Bissau from all decision-making bodies until constitutional order is restored. In a statement, the bloc ordered the military to return to the barracks, calling its actions a “grave violation of Guinea-Bissau’s constitutional order”.
The African Union has also condemned the coup.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a statement that he was “deeply concerned” about the situation in Guinea-Bissau, calling for an “immediate and unconditional restoration of constitutional order”.
Guinea-Bissau has witnessed at least nine coups or attempted coups over the last five decades.
Additional reporting by Wycliffe Muia, Yemisi Adegoke and Natasha Booty
Getty Images/BBC
Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno stunned the global music industry this week with the announcement of a “landmark” deal, which also settled previous litigation between the companies.
Meanwhile, Spotify is reportedly planning to raise its Premium prices in the US as soon as Q1 2026, as the streaming giant works to demonstrate sustained profitability.
Elsewhere, Universal Music Group received a Statement of Objections from the European Commission over its proposed $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings.
Also this week, the estate of Johnny Cash sued Coca-Cola over the alleged use of a sound-alike singer in a nationwide advertising campaign.
Here are some of the biggest headlines from the past few days…
Warner Music Group and AI music generator Suno have struck what they call a “first-of-its-kind partnership”.
They claim the deal will “open new frontiers in music creation, interaction, and discovery, while both compensating and protecting artists, songwriters, and the wider creative community”.
The deal also settles previous litigation between the companies.
The deal, according to a press release, “brings together Suno’s best-in-class AI capabilities with WMG’s artist development leadership and expertise at the intersection of music and technology”. (MBW)
Spotify plans to raise its Premium prices in the US as soon as the first quarter of 2026.
That’s according to the Financial Times, which reported on Monday (November 24), citing three people familiar with the matter, that the move comes as Spotify works to demonstrate sustained profitability.
A US Spotify Premium subscription currently costs $11.99 per month, up from $9.99 when the service launched in the country 14 years ago. The US, the world’s largest recorded music market, last saw a price rise from Spotify in July 2024… (MBW)
The European Commission has officially sent a Statement of Objections to Universal Music Group over its proposed $775 million acquisition of Downtown Music Holdings.
The Statement of Objections (SO) issued on Monday (November 24) represents a formal escalation in the EC’s investigation into the transaction, which UMG’s Virgin Music Group announced in December 2024.
The arrival of the SO confirms reports from last week that the EC was preparing to issue a ‘formal warning’ over the proposed deal.
The EC opened its in-depth Phase II investigation into the proposed acquisition in July, following a 25-day initial Phase I review… (MBW)
The estate of Johnny Cash has sued Coca-Cola, accusing the beverage giant of using an impersonator who mimicked the late singer’s voice in a nationwide advertising campaign without permission.
The complaint, filed in US District Court in Nashville, alleges Coca-Cola hired a tribute singer to record vocals for a college football-themed commercial that started airing in August 2025. The John R. Cash Revocable Trust, which controls the singer’s publicity rights, is seeking damages and an injunction to stop Coca-Cola from “exploiting the infringing ad.”
The trust alleges in the lawsuit that Coca-Cola commissioned the Go the Distance commercial as part of its Fan Work Is Thirsty Work campaign for the NCAA football season… (MBW)
Reservoir Media has struck up a new joint venture with Jamaican star Cordell “Skatta” Burrell and reggae and dancehall publisher Abood Music. Together, they plan to both acquire catalogs and sign and develop Jamaican artists and songwriters, aimed at “further advancing the new generation of Jamaica’s music scene”.
Started by Jamdown Records founder Othman Mukhlis in 2001, Abood Music is a long-established publisher of Jamaican and international music.
With a catalog spanning “decades”, Abood Music has an extensive history of global hits, with more than 220 million albums sold and over 120 Jamaican clients… (MBW)
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Ukrainian president’s chief of staff Andriy Yermak confirms search, saying he has offered ‘full cooperation’.
Anticorruption authorities in Ukraine have searched the home of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s chief of staff, as a major corruption investigation continues to roil the country and cause consternation among allies.
Andriy Yermak, who leads Kyiv’s negotiating team concurrently trying to hash out the terms of a United States-proposed plan to end the four-year war with Russia, confirmed his apartment was being searched on Friday and said he was fully cooperating.
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“There are no obstacles for the investigators. They have been given full access to the apartment, and my lawyers are present on-site, cooperating with the law enforcement officers. From my side, there is full cooperation,” he said on social media.
In a joint statement, the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine and the Specialised Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office said the searches were “authorised” and linked to an unspecified investigation.
Earlier this month, the two anticorruption agencies unveiled a sweeping investigation into an alleged $100m kickback scheme at the state atomic energy company that ensnared former senior officials and an ex-business partner of Zelenskyy.
Friday’s searches come as the Ukrainian president faces growing pressure from the administration of United States President Donald Trump to agree to Washington’s proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
Ukraine and its European allies had raised concerns that the Trump-backed plan comprised some elements that Russia has been actively pushing for, including that Ukraine cede additional territory and curtail the size of its military.
But a revised proposal has been put forward, and Kyiv has said it is open to negotiations.
The searches are also likely to worsen tensions between Zelenskyy and his political opponents amid the peace negotiations.
In a statement on Thursday, the European Solidarity opposition party criticised Yermak’s role as a negotiator and called on Zelenskyy for “an honest dialogue” with other parties.
Viktor Shlinchak, a political analyst at the Kyiv-based Institute for World Politics, described the searches as a “Black Friday” for Yermak and suggested Zelenskyy may be forced to dismiss him.
“It looks like we may soon have a different head of the negotiating team,” he wrote on Facebook.
Yermak, 54, is Zelenskyy’s most important ally, but a divisive figure in Kyiv, where his opponents say he has accumulated power, gatekeeps access to the president and ruthlessly sidelines critical voices.
A former film producer and copyright lawyer, Yermak came into politics with Zelenskyy in 2019, previously working with him during the now-president’s time as a popular comedian.
He is widely considered the second-most influential man in the country and even sometimes nicknamed “vice president”.
The corruption investigation revolves around an alleged scheme involving Energoatom, the state-run nuclear power company that supplies more than half of the country’s electricity.
“That [case] has been swirling around Ukraine for several weeks now, rocking the government,” Al Jazeera’s Rory Challands reported from Kyiv on Friday. “The allegation is that some $100m … has gone through a kind of laundromat,” he explained.
Anticorruption investigators have said they suspect that Tymur Mindich, a one-time business partner of Zelenskyy, was the plot’s mastermind.
Mindich has fled the country, with any criminal proceedings against him likely to be carried out in absentia. Two top ministers have also resigned over the scandal.
Challands also noted that the inquiry comes after Zelenskyy’s government had tried in July to take away the Ukrainian anticorruption agencies’ independence and place them under the control of his prosecutor-general.
But the Ukrainian leader backtracked after mass public protests.
2025 WEST/MID-WEST REGION HIGH SCHOOL| Rank | School Name | City, State | Record | Previous | Finish/Accomplishments |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sacred Heart Academy | Louisville, Kentucky | 27-0-1 | 1 | KHSAA State Champions |
| 2 | New Trier High School | Winnetka, Illinois | 24-3-1 | 3 | Illinois State Champions |
| 3 | Glenbrook North High School | Glenview, Illinois | 20-2-1 | 2 | Illinois State Finalist |
| 4 | John Burroughs School | Saint Louis, Missouri | 26-1-0 | 4 | Missouri State Champions |
| 5 | The Kinkaid School | Houston, Texas | 11-3-0 | 6 | SPC Champions |
| 6 | St. John’s School | Houston, Texas | 14-3-0 | 5 | SPC Finalist |
| 7 | Thomas Worthington High School | Worthington, Ohio | 20-2-1 | 7 | Ohio State Champions |
| 8 | Assumption High School | Louisville, Kentucky | 21-6-0 | 8 | KHSAA State Semifinalist |
| 9 | The Bishop’s School | La Jolla, California | 23-2-0 | 9 | San Diego Section Open Division Champions |
| 10 | St. Joseph’s Academy | Saint Louis, Missouri | 17-3-0 | 12 | Missouri State Finalist |
| 11 | MICDS | Saint Louis, Missouri | 20-5-0 | 13 | Missouri State Semifinalist |
| 12 | Villa Duchesne | Frontenac, Missouri | 16-5-2 | 11 | Missouri State Semifinalist |
| 13 | Upper Arlington High School | Columbus, Ohio | 18-3-1 | 16 | Ohio State Finalist |
| 14 | Christian Academy of Louisville | Louisville, Kentucky | 15-9-1 | 14 | KHSAA State Finalist |
| 15 | Shaker Heights High School | Shaker Heights, Ohio | 20-1-0 | 10 | Northeast Regional Finalist |
| 16 | Scripps Ranch High School | San Diego, California | 19-6-0 | 17 | San Diego Section Open Division Semifinalist |
| 17 | Pioneer High School | Ann Arbor, Michigan | 14-5-1 | 20 | Michigan State Champions |
| 18 | Torrey Pines High School | San Diego, California | 20-4-0 | 19 | San Diego Section Open Division Semifinalist |
| 19 | Canyon Hills High School | San Diego, California | 19-6-0 | 18 | San Diego Section Open Divison Finalist |
| 20 | Los Gatos High School | Los Gatos, California | 22-1-0 | 15 | Central Coast Section Champions |
| OC | Bishop Watterson High School | Columbus, Ohio | 16-3-2 | NR | Central 2 Regional Finalist |
| OC | Dexter High School | Dexter, Michigan | 15-4-4 | OC | Michigan State Finalist |
| OC | Hudson High School | Hudson, Ohio | 16-5-1 | OC | OHSAA State Semifinalist, Northeast Regional Champions |
| OC | Loyola Academy | Wilmette, Illinois | 15-9-1 | OC | Illinois State Fourth Place |
| OC | Saline High School | Saline, Michigan | 16-2-2 | OC | Michigan State Semifinalist |
| OC | San Marcos High School | San Marcos, California | 19-4-1 | OC | San Diego Section Open Division Quarterfinalist |
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