Guinea-Bissau: Coup or legitimate change of power?
05 March 2020 |
12:42 pm
Two months after Guinea-Bissau's presidential election runoff, projected winner Umaro Sissoco Embalo claimed victory and immediately installed a new cabinet. The largest party in parliament called it a coup.
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