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Guinea-Bissau election update:Former intelligence boss assassinated
He also said that he had requested additional reinforcements to be sent to protect the electoral commission office, where ballots are being counted. Preliminary results will be released no later than March 25, Da Costa said.
Nine candidates are vying for the presidency of Guinea-Bissau, a nation with a population of 1.5 million, which has weathered successive coups and has more recently been destabilized by a booming cocaine trade. The trafficking has been made possible by the complicity of members of the government, especially the military.
In 2010, the U.S. Treasury Department listed two high-ranking army figures as drug kingpins, freezing any assets they may have had in the United States.
Late Monday, a crowd had gathered at Diallo’s home. Friends and colleagues were streaming in to pay their condolences. They refused to speak to a reporter that tried to question them about the circumstances of the death.
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
