Bissau-Guinean President Umaro Sissoco Embaló took the opposite view from some of his counterparts during the ECOWAS videoconference devoted to the coup d’état in Mali, we learned from Jeune Afrique.
During a first round of speaking by Heads of State, while Mahamadou Issoufou, current President of ECOWAS, recalled the need to condemn the coup and that Alassane Ouattara and Alpha Condé showed their support for Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta, whom they still hope to reinstall in the Malian presidency, Sissoco Embaló cast a chill during the virtual assembly.
Third term
Indeed, if the President of Guinea-Bissau has declared himself in favor of condemning the coup d’état in Mali, he added that ECOWAS should adopt the same attitude to “all the coups“. And to add that, according to him, “the third terms”Were also coups.
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If the Nigerian Muhammadu Buhari smiled at this pike, the main stakeholders, Alpha Condé, presumed candidate for the third time for the presidential election in Guinea, and Alassane Ouattara, officially in contention in Côte d’Ivoire, did not appreciate the exit of Bissau-Guinean.
Condé “mute”, Ouattara sticks “son” to him
Alpha Condé preferred to remain silent, but Ouattara, himself, expressed his dissatisfaction to his younger brother, whom he then named “son”.
“No small country”
Far from being dismantled, Sissoco Embaló replied that he was a counterpart to the Head of State like the others and that there was “no small country”.
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