Ex-premier seeks asylum in slaying
From Times Wire Reports
A former prime minister of Guinea-Bissau sought asylum at the local United Nations office, three days after he accused the tiny African nation’s president of murder.
Guinea-Bissau’s interior minister had earlier issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. The order followed allegations by Gomes that President Joao Bernardo Vieira was behind the assassination of a former military commander last week.
U.N. officials in the country were not available for comment.
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