Guinea-Bissau, 2024 — dissident coup conspiracy
Event Summary
This entry is coded 27 March 2024 in Guinea-Bissau and falls within a documented period of recurring coup allegations and institutional crisis under President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, though no discrete coup plot precisely on that date is confirmed in the sources located for this entry. Guinea-Bissau, long one of the world's most coup-prone states, saw a February 2022 coup attempt against Embalo, a late-2022 mutiny he condemned as a coup attempt, and an alleged coup attempt in early December 2023 that Embalo used as a pretext to dissolve the opposition-dominated parliament, after which the country had no sitting legislature. Through 2024 tensions persisted over the timing of elections and the legitimacy of Embalo's mandate, which the opposition said expired in February 2025.
The 27 March 2024 coding sits in this window of post-dissolution instability. It is distinct from the well-documented later events: an alleged coup plot at the end of October 2025 in which senior officers were arrested, and the 26 November 2025 coup that ousted Embalo around the disputed election. The coding is best understood against this recurring crisis rather than a single confirmed plot on the day.
Researched Details
Researched
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Sources
Editorial Note
Cross-Reference
Only one dataset carries it. One of the three reference datasets we check against carries this event; the others do not list it. That is not a contradiction — the datasets cover different periods and use different thresholds — but it means the record has had less outside corroboration.
Identifiers for finding this same event in the other datasets:
- Cline Center id
40403272024
How the match is made is described in crossref-report.md.
Outcome and Target
Coup Atlas research identifies the target as: Embalo repeatedly cited alleged plots amid recurring institutional crises.
Baseline coding: Plot discovered and disrupted before execution. Recorded leader fate: remained in office; not physically harmed. The baseline file does not name individual targets; researched names are kept in a separate layer.
Baseline Dataset Citation
Baseline Source-Document Entries
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Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) press release
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