Mamadu Turé Kuruma

Mamadu Turé Kuruma (born April 26, 1947 ) is a former general and politician from Guinea-Bissau who, among other things, was the de facto president of Guinea-Bissau in 2012 as chairman of a military command .

Life

On April 12, 2012, Kuruma led a military coup against Raimundo Pereira , who had temporarily assumed the office of President of Guinea-Bissau after the death of Malam Bacai Sanhá on January 9, 2012. On April 14, 2012, he became chairman of the military command and thus in fact himself president. The second course of the presidential elections , scheduled for April 29, 2012 , was announced after Carlos Gomes Júnior , as well as Malam Bacai Sanhá, was arrested, as the leading candidate of the ruling Partido Africano da Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) . The new interim president Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo , planned by the military command on April 19, 2012, refused to accept the office on April 20, 2012 after the African Union and the West African Economic Community (ECOWAS) rejected the agreement as an attempt to legitimize the coup and Nhamadjo rejected the Refused recognition.

After an agreement between the military command and ECOWAS, however, Nhamadjo took over the post of interim president on May 11, 2012 and, based on the agreement on May 16, 2012, appointed former finance minister and ECOWAS employee Rui Duarte de Barros as acting prime minister . He took office on May 17, 2012 and presented a government on May 22, 2012, which included Faustino Imbali as Foreign Minister, Celestino de Carvalho as Defense Minister, António Suka Ntchama as Interior Minister and Abubacar Demba Dahaba as Finance Minister.

Web links

• Short biography in rulers.org (English)
• Presidents - Guinea-Bissau (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ April 2012 (rulers.org)
2. ↑ May 2012 (rulers.org)