Guinea Bissau's opposition leader released from jail

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Guinea-Bissau opposition leader Domingos Simoes Pereira was released from jail on Friday after spending months behind bars.

He was one of several senior politicians imprisoned by the military after it seized power in November, overthrowing President Umaro Sissoco Embalo just days after presidential elections.

The junta claimed it had acted to prevent bloodshed between supporters of rival candidates and announced it was taking control of the west African country for a period of one year.

Pereira had been barred from standing in the vote.
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