Guinea-Bissau’s President, Embalo seeks second term amid tensions

  Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo has announced that he will compete for a second term in November, despite opposition claims that he is not the country’s actual president. Meanwhile, a delegation from the West African regional body ECOWAS, …

Guinea-Bissau in institutional crisis as president stays

Umaro Sissoco Embaló's five-year term as president officially expired on February 28, 2025. Technically, he is no longer Guinea-Bissau's leader, but he has not stepped down. Domingos Simões Pereira, leader of the African Party for the Independence …

Guinea-Bissau: ECOWAS mission ‘will never return’ – president

The president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has confirmed that he had sent the ECOWAS mission away and said that it “will never return to the country”. A high-level delegation from the Economic Community of West African States was in Bissau from …

Guinea-Bissau president says ECOWAS mediation "no longer welcome"

BISSAU, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Tuesday that the mediation mission from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) "will no longer be welcome in Guinea-Bissau" unless the organization…

Analysis : ECOWAS’s struggle to assert influence in Guinea-Bissau’s political impasse 

In December 2019, President Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló triumphed in the presidential elections, securing a five-year mandate that positioned him to seek re-election in 2025. Yet, in December 2023, Embaló made the controversial decision to dissolve the …

Guinea-Bissau president says he will run for a second term amid political turmoil

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said he will run for a second term in November, amid tensions with an opposition that refuses to recognize him as the country’s current president. Meanwhile, a delegation from the …

Guinea-Bissau president to run for second term, backtracking on vow to step down

BISSAU (Reuters) – Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Monday he would run for a second term in November, backtracking on earlier vows to step down and potentially stoking tensions over when his current term ends and over postponed …

ECOWAS Mission Leaves Guinea-Bissau After President Threatens Expulsion

West African mission leaves Guinea-Bissau after 'president's threats'

The West African regional bloc, Ecowas, says a mission deployed to Guinea-Bissau to help resolve an election dispute has left the country after the president threatened to expel it. The team was sent in last month to help reach a "political consensus…

Guinea-Bissau’s Embaló Continues to Dare ECOWAS

By Paul Ejime By threatening to expel the joint mission of ECOWAS and the UN Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS) from Guinea-Bissau, President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, who has been ruling his country as a dictator, has not only displayed …