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FILE - Guinea-Bissau Transitional President General Horta Inta-A-Na Man, centre, and President of Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye walk during an official ECOWAS mission to help resolve Guinea-Bissau's political crisis in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, on Jan. 10, 2026. (AP Photo/Abubacar Queta, File)

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Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo enters a hall during his meeting with Russian president Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025. (Sergei Bobylev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Guinea-Bissau president says he will run for a second term amid political turmoil

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Guinea Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo speaks at the Peace Forum on Nov. 11, 2022 in Paris. A shootout in Guinea-Bissau’s capital Friday was an attempted coup, Embalo said Sunday Dec. 3, 2023 after a meeting with security forces, confirming fears over the latest threat to democracy in the increasingly volatile and coup-hit West Africa. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, Pool, File)

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