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Politician, journalists arrested

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    State television in Guinea-Bissau was off the air for the second day on Monday as employees protested against the detention of two of their colleagues, arrested on Saturday, the Portuguese news agency Lusa reported.

    Lusa and other news organisations reported that the journalists were arrested after a statement by Alianca socialista da Guine (ASG) leader Fernando Gomes accusing the country’s prime minister of corruption, was read out on the television station.

    Gomes, who had been responding to a similar accusation Prime Minister Caetano Intchama had made against him and which he had denied, was arrested on Sunday, Lusa said.

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