Kumba Ialá, Bissau-Guinean soldier and politician, President of Guinea-Bissau (born 1953)

Kumba Ialá

President of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 to 2003

Kumba Ialá Embaló, also spelled Yalá, was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was president from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a bloodless military coup on 14 September 2003. He belonged to the Balanta ethnic group and was President of the Social Renewal Party (PRS). In…

List of presidents of Guinea-Bissau

This article lists the presidents of Guinea-Bissau, since the establishment of the office of president in 1973.