This profile mirrors and is kept in sync with the Guinea-Bissau entry in the main guide's case studies.
Overview
Days after a disputed November 23, 2025 general election whose results were never released, soldiers calling themselves the Revolutionary Armed Forces of the People seized power on November 26, 2025, halting the vote count and overthrowing President Umaro Sissoco Embaló; the military alleged, without offering evidence, that a plot involving unnamed politicians and a "well-known drug lord" had been underway. General Horta Inta-A Na Man was installed as interim president of a one-year military transition the following day, and the junta has since decreed new elections for December 6, 2026 — a vote its own transitional charter bars Horta from contesting.
Analytical lens
Concepts on this wiki that help explain this case: Democratic Backsliding and Executive Aggrandizement, Regime Types: How Democracy Is Measured.