Guinea-Bissau’s army chief discovered a 200-kilogramme cocaine stash a week before his assassination, which preceded the murder of the country’s president, an army officer said Thursday.
Following General Batista Tagme Na Waie’s killing, soldiers murdered President Joao Bernardo Vieira earlier this week in an apparent reprisal in the West African nation.

Guinea-Bissau’s interior ministry said one soldier loyal to the president had been killed in the assault, and several other guards had been wounded.
The African Union warned against any “attempt to seize power by force”.
AU spokesman El-Ghassim Wane told French radio that the body was “very concerned about the situation”, stressing that it rejected “all unlawful change of government”.