Expats in Sao Tome and Principe

The head of the government of Sao Tome and Principe, Patrice Trovoada, spoke of "extrajudicial executions" after the "attempted" putsch carried out by assailants on the night of November 24 to 25 at the army headquarters. "We had, from our point of view, an attempted coup. The Armed Forces stopped this attempt. After the end of the operation, hours later, there were what we believe to be extrajudicial executions, the execution of people who were key witnesses," he said in an interview with the Lusa agency broadcast on Wednesday. "At the very least there was a lapse in command. The people under the responsibility of the Armed Forces cannot die, they are in detention," added Mr Trovoada, who moved Tuesday to Portugal, the former colonial power of Sao Tome, a small and very poor archipelago in the Gulf of Guinea, independent since 1975. After a meeting with Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, he said he expected his country's judicial