Guinea-Bissau has frozen ties with Cape Verde over what it claims is interference in its internal affairs.
Praia earlier this week requested that Bissau swiftly release the country’s main opposition leader Domingos Simões Pereira.
He was place in pre-trial detention a week ago, accused of involvement in an attempted coup in October 2025, which he is alleged to have helped finance.
Pereira also faces charges of separate financial crimes and involvement in a 2023 coup. He was one of several senior politicians imprisoned by the military after it seized power in November 2025.
That coup saw the army replace President Umaro Sissoco Embalo just days after presidential and legislative elections.
