Twenty-two political parties are contesting the ballot, including the three that shared almost all the seats in the outgoing Assembly. Some 200 international observers have been deployed in the country to monitor the vote.
Voters in Guinea-Bissau headed to the polls on Sunday for legislative elections called by a president pushing constitutional change after years of instability in the small west African state. Having recently revealed a coup attempt in February, 2022, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo dissolved the national assembly in May after falling out with lawmakers as the […]