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The main threat to peace in Bissau is a coup d’état following the fatal bombing of the Army Chief of Staff, General Batista Tagme Na Waie, on 1 March and the retaliatory killing of President João Bernardo Vieira a few hours later. For now, the chances of further military intervention have receded (AC Vol 49 No 18). A planeload of regional diplomats descended on Bissau the day after Vieira’s death and have encouraged politicians and senior officers to chart a constitutional path to elections....

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Batista Tagme Na Waie, João Bernardo Vieira, Raimundo Pereira, José Zamora Induta, José Américo Bubo Na Tchuto, Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, Senegal, Tagme Na Waie, Columbia, Venezuela, Frederick Forsyth, Equatorial Guinea, The Dogs of War

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