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Impoverished Nation Guinea-Bissau Junta Breaks its Precious Democratic Continuum

G.Bissau junta names transition leader, defies world opinion

Guinea-Bissau’s junta on Thursday named a failed presidential candidate to head a two-year transition government after a deal with the opposition, defying world calls for a return to democracy. A joint statement by the opposition and military rulers named former parliamentary speaker and independent.