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Guinea-Bissau: Sissoco Prepares “Enthronement” in Power with Flawed Elections

USE has leveraged his position to strengthen international networking, bringing together key global players, from the United States to Russia and France.
Internally, he has demonstrated political cunning and has successfully gained the support of the armed forces through compensation for military leaders (AM 1478) and the modernization of the institution with weapons, equipment, and facilities. He has easily divided political parties and recruited support whenever it was circumstantially useful, as was the case with BC, coordinator of MADEM-G15, coming to dominate the judicial system itself. READ MORE