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Will newly elected President Embaló stabilise Guinea-Bissau?

Former Prime Minister Umaro Sissoco Embaló is elected president of Guinea Bissau.

Guinea-Bissau has a new president. Former prime minister Umaro Sissoco Embaló has been declared the winner of the elections held on Sunday. So can the country now hope for the political stability it craves following a decade marred with coups? We speak to Head of the African Union Election Observation Mission in Guinea-Bissau, Joaquim Raphael Branco.

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