Six West African heads of state including President Goodluck Jonathan will discuss the situation in Guinea-Bissau at a meeting in Dakar next week, the Senegalese government announced at the weekend.[/size]
To join him are the presidents of Senegal, Gambia, Togo, Cape Verde and Guinea-Conakry, who make up a "contact group" on Guinea-Bissau. Their meeting is scheduled for Thursday, it said.[/font][/size]
The junta that seized power in Guinea-Bissau on April 12 agreed Friday to a one-year transition back to democracy, the deployment of a regional intervention force and the release of political leaders they rounded up during the putsch.[/font]
[/size]Raimundo Pereira, the ousted interim president, and Carlos Gomes Junior, the former prime minister, arrived in the Ivorian economic capital Abidjan at the weekend.
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