Fernando Dias da Costa

Politics in Guinea-Bissau will be dominated by the after-effects of the bizarre and failed coup attempt against outgoing President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and the associated pursuit of opposition leader Fernando Dias da Costa...

Politics in Guinea-Bissau will be dominated by the after-effects of the bizarre and failed coup attempt against outgoing President Umaro Sissoco Embalo and the associated pursuit of opposition leader Fernando Dias da Costa...

Embaló's chief electoral opponent and the man thought most likely to win the election Fernando Dias da Costa president of the Partido da Renovação Social (PRS) managed to avoid arrest and found refuge in the Nigerian embassy in Bissau under the guarantee of President Bola Tinubu...

Everything appeared set for a sweeping electoral victory for Embaló with resistance suppressed by violence and intimidation but the candidacy of Fernando Dias da Costa leader of the PRS upset calculations...