The Head of State of Guinea-Bissau calls for firmness to get a country long plagued by political instability and drug trafficking take off. The tough man known for his outspokenness, is on a crusade against drugs and corruption

In an hour of interview with Le Monde Afrique, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who came to power a year and a half ago, has continued to compare himself to his counterparts around the world... and in particular to Rodrigo Duterte, a populist leader who has distinguished himself since his election in 2016 for serious human rights violations in the name of his election in 2016 of the fight against drug trafficking and D& eacute; defense of national security

Umaro Sissoco Embalo simply claims to be “embaloism”, which he summarizes as “order, discipline and development”. “Guinea-Bissau will no longer be the country you knew, where anyone does anything. It's over, over! ”, he told his voters on December 29, 2019, on the evening of his surprise victory against the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the historic independence party. He describes corruption as a “social Covid” whose two “vaccines” would be “discipline and order”. While hastening to specify: “I am not a dictator! But when the boss is legit, society follows. “He thus claims to have been behind the imprisonment, in early May, of the former health minister Antonio Deuna, accused of embezzlement