Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló

Ecowas has also been made aware of the inconsistencies of its own position not least by the presidents of two smaller Ecowas member states Liberia's George Weah and Guinea-Bissau's Úmaro Sissoco Embaló (to whom Condé was implacably hostile) have said that coups should be no surprise when presidents do not respect their own constitutions...

Similarly Úmaro Sissoco Embaló's election in Guinea Bissau meant that the close if volatile relationship between the MFDC and that country's long-ruling party was at an end (AC Vol 61 No 5 They're back)...

The case of Guinea Bissau will be equally complicated: Condé has a deeply antagonistic relation with President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and the accusations levelled at this neighbour were equally serious...

President Úmaro Sissoco Embaló who was the only Ecowas head of state to go to Bamako for N'Daw's inauguration on 25 September...

The surprise victory of Úmaro Sissoco Embaló in the second round of the presidential election has failed to end the country's political turbulence (AC Vol 60 No 24 Revenge of the rejects)...

His challenger will be Umaro Sissoco Embaló leader of the second-largest party the Movimento para a Alternância Democraticá – Grupo 15 (MADEM – G15) who got 28%...

Assembleia do Povo Unido – Partido Democrático da Guiné-Bissau (APU-PDGB) leader Nuno Nabian is also running alongside former prime ministers Carlos Gomes Júnior Bacira Dja and Umaro Sissoco Embaló of the Movimento para Alternância Democrática (MADEM-G15) a Vaz ally...

Two weeks before that his previous appointee Úmaro Sissoco Embaló – another anti-reformer – had resigned (AC Vol 58 No 9 Vaz clings to power)...

Vaz's most recent nominee as Prime Minister Umaro Sissoco Embaló lacks the support of the majority reforming wing of the PAIGC...

His acting Prime Minister General Úmaro Sissoco Embaló has crudely tried to make up for his and the President's lack of popularity by appealing to race and religion in order to win more support...