guinea-bissau
A POLITICAL crisis in Guinea-Bissau has escalated over the past month after President Umaro Sissoco Embalo declared the country’s parliament dissolved, citing an “attempted coup”.
While elected deputies were denied access to the National People’s Assembly (NPA), Embalo has since dismissed and replaced the prime minister and named a new cabinet.
The move follows just a few months after the Inclusive Alliance Platform-Terra Ranka (PAI-Terra Ranka) led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), founded by Marxist anti-colonial revolutionary Amilcar Cabral, secured a majority of 54 out of the 102
