A military court in Guinea-Bissau (a small, coup-prone West African nation) has ordered the country's main opposition leader, Domingos Simoes Pereira, back into pre-trial detention after he appeared before it on Friday. Pereira, who heads the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, faces charges of helping finance an attempted coup in October 2025, as well as separate financial crimes and alleged involvement in a 2023 coup attempt. His lawyers and party dismiss the charges as politically motivated, arguing they are designed to prevent him from competing in a presidential election scheduled for 6 December.