Umaro Sissoco Embalo

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Guinea-Bissau president says ‘all well’ after ‘coup attempt’

Heavily-armed men surrounded the Palace of Government, where President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and PM Nuno Gomes Nabiam were believed to have gone to attend a cabinet meeting
The former Portuguese colony is an impoverished coastal state of around two million people lying south of Senegal – it has seen four military putsches since gaining independence in 1974

By AFP · 01 February 2022