West African culture takes center stage at Dakar’s ECOFEST 2025
ECOFEST 2025 in Dakar, Senegal focuses on how culture fosters resilience amid political crises in West Africa.
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ECOFEST 2025 in Dakar, Senegal focuses on how culture fosters resilience amid political crises in West Africa.
![Fatima Jobe, known as “Fatou,” poses in her Dakar shop on 14 November 2025. [Nicolas Remene/AFP]](/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/image-1764970091.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)



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Military takeover follows others in the region in recent years.
General Horta Inta-A is named the head of a one-year transitional government after President Embalo was detained.

“I don’t think this military takeover is going in the right direction.”
General Horta Inta-A declares himself the leader of the transitional government.

Military officers have seized control of Guinea-Bissau and detained the president.
Army says it has taken ‘total control’, deposed and arrested the president, and suspended the electoral process.
Conflicting claims come before the release of official results by the country’s electoral commission.
The president wants a second term and is challenged by a relatively unknown candidate backed by a former prime minister.










Arrests come before November general elections as President Umaro Sissoco Embalo is at odds with political opposition.