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Guinea-Bissau: Balanta Coalition Advances Against PAIGC and in Support of Sissoco

The platform between the parties representing the Balanta, the main Guinean ethnicity, anticipates the marking of the date of the legislative elections by PR UMARO SISSOCO EMBALÓ (USE). The agreement formalized on 14.JAN between the interim president of the Party of Social Renovation (PRS), FERNANDO DIAS DA COSTA, and the former PM and leader of the Assembly of the United People-Democratic Party of Guinea-Bissau (APU-PDGB), NUNO GOMES NABIAM (NGN), follows the appointment of a government of presidential initiative. READ MORE