The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Braima Camara, was on Tuesday rushed to hospital in neighbouring Senegal after collapsing during an official ceremony.
It was reports that Camara, 57, who was appointed prime minister in early August, slumped while President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was delivering a speech at the presidential palace.
According to eyewitnesses who spoke with AFP on the incident, the prime minister initially stood up before suddenly collapsing, prompting immediate medical intervention.
“At the end of the ceremony, he felt unwell and fainted,” a source close to his office told AFP.
Camara was evacuated aboard a Senegalese army plane and admitted to a hospital in Dakar for urgent treatment, the source added.
Authorities in Guinea-Bissau have yet to issue a formal statement on the prime minister’s health.
However, a member of his entourage assured that Camara’s condition has stabilised.
“The prime minister is out of danger. He received very quick and effective care even before his evacuation,” the source said.
In other news, President Bola Tinubu has ordered a temporary ban on the export of raw shea nuts, with immediate effect.
It was reports that the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications, Office of the Vice President, Stanley Nkwocha, made this known in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja.
According to the News Agency of Nigeria, Vice President Kashim Shettima presided over the implementation meeting with critical stakeholders on the Presidential directive.
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