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Vol 66 No 4

Published 21st February 2025


Guinea Bissau

Embaló seizes total power

With his close ally General Biaguê, the President has all but destroyed the country’s democracy within five years

Tensions are rising between President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and opposition groupings over the date he is due to leave office. Embaló insists it is 4 September – that is the day in 2020 when the country’s Supreme Court Supremo Tribunal de Justiça (STJ) confirmed him as president after months of wrangling. But opposition activists and politicians insist it should be 27 February as Embaló staged his own inauguration on 26 February 2020, in a Bissau hotel. Now the test is whether threats of brutal state repression will dissuade the opposition from staging protests this month.

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