Guinea Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed his two-day-old cabinet after the Supreme Court ruled that his appointment of a new Prime Minister was unconstitutional.
President Vaz had earlier last month, removed the country's popular Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira and replaced him with Baciro Dja, plunging the coup-prone nation which has suffered nine coups or attempted coups since 1980, into a political crisis.
Guinea Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz
Guinea Bissau's President Jose Mario Vaz
Members of the ruling PAIGC party, to which all three men belong, objected to those decisions and appealed to the Supreme Court which ruled in their favour.
Baciro Dja announced his resignation but it was not immediately clear if his cabinet would follow suit.
Vaz and Pereira - former rivals for the leadership of PAIGC, have enjoyed a frosty relationship worsened since elections last year which restored democratic rule after a 2012 army coup.