Dar es Salaam, March 5 -- Guinea Bissau: Umaro Sissoco Embalós five-year term as president officially expired on February 28, 2025. Technically, he is no longer Guinea Bisssaus leader, but he has not stepped down. Domingos Simões Pereira, leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), insists Embaló must step down immediately.

Pereira leads a coalition that actually won the last parliamentary elections in 2023 with an absolute majority. But since then, Embaló has systematically prevented Pereira from forming a government.

The four-year term of the parliament has also expired, so Pereira wants new presidential and parliamentary elections “within 90 days and...