Guinea-Bissau says coup plotter came from Portugal

Guinea-Bissau's latest coup attempt appears to have been fomented in Portugal and led by a soldier who sought exile in the European country after allegedly carrying out the 2009 assassination of Guinea-Bissau's former president, a government spokesman said on Monday. The main suspect in Sunday's foiled coup is Pansau Ntchama, a commando who is the ex-bodyguard of Guinea-Bissau's former army chief of staff, said government spokesman Fernando Vaz. "He is a man with political ambitions living in...