Africa Monitor Intelligence

Guinea-Bissau: Simões Pereira Loses ECOWAS Ally

The new phase, of legitimizing the PR and Government by international recognition, is already underway, with the support of USE´s regional allies (Senegal, Gambia, Nigeria), who are expected to influence ECOWAS, based on the argument of that there is a new parliamentary majority, that the dismissal of the PAIGC executive was necessary given the stance of blocking the electoral process via the STJ and the possibility that successive court appeals invalidate the result of the presidential elections due to the expiry of the investiture period (45 days). READ MORE