Seven injured in Guinea-Bissau clashes

At least seven people were injured Friday in clashes between police and supporters of the former ruling party of Guinea-Bissau, according to an AFP journalist on an incident where the Guinea-Bissau president blames ‘failed coup’ on 3 drug traffickers

The incident took place in the capital Bissau at the headquarters of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) opposite the presidential palace.
Party spokesman Joao Bernardo Vieira told AFP."We deplore the events of this evening. The security forces broke into the headquarters (of the PAIGC) where a meeting of the party's central committee was being held," 
While Party members had gathered to organise a party congress from Saturday to Tuesday but a rival of party leader Domingos Simoes Pereira took legal action to stop it from taking place, a local court prohibited the party meeting and the rival party figure, Bolom Conte, called on police to enforce the court ruling.
"The judicial authorities require the PAIGC to respect the decision of the regional court of Bissau," following the legal action brought by Conte, said Vieira.On February 1, heavily armed men attacked government buildings in Bissau while the president was chairing a cabinet meeting. Eleven people were killed in the attack after failedmasked gunmen raided the PAIGC headquarters, weeks after a failed coup attempt in the West African country of two million people.