Deposition of Kumba Ialá

Date: September 14, 2003 • Location: Rome, Italy

This milestone marked the outbreak and beginning of this historic period, which spanned 2003.

President Kumba Ialá (pictured) of Guinea-Bissau was deposed in a bloodless military coup.

Kumba Yalá Embaló, also spelled Ialá, 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 2008 he converted to Islam and took the name Mohamed Yalá Embaló. He was the founder of the Party for Social Renewal.