Iafai Camará
Iafai Camará | |
|---|---|
| Vice President of Guinea-Bissau | |
| In office 7 November 1985 – December 1991 | |
| President | João Bernardo Vieira |
| Preceded by | Paulo Correia |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Gambia |
| Political party | PAIGC |
Colonel Iafai Camará is a Bissau-Guinean politician from PAIGC.
He was born in Gambia,[1] and was a manual laborer on the farm managed by Amílcar Cabral, who recruited him to PAIGC. During War of Independence, he was military commander of the eastern front.[1] After the 1980 coup d'état he was a member of the Revolutionary Council.[2] He was appointed as the minister of the armed forces from 1982 to 1984.[3]
Camará was appointed as the Second Vice President in May 1984.[4] He was appointed as the First Vice President on 7 November 1985 to replace Paulo Correia.[5] He was also later again minister of the armed forces,[6] allegedly supplying arms to the rebels in Casamance conflict in 1991.[7] Camara is one of the few PAIGC commanders who came into power in the 1980 coup d'état and survived the turbulence in leadership positions.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c "JPRS Report - Africa" (PDF). apps.dtic.mil. Foreign Broadcast Information Service. 11 September 1987.
- ^ Forrest, Joshua B. (March 1987). "Guinea-Bissau Since Independence: A Decade of Domestic Power Struggles". The Journal of Modern African Studies. pp. 95–116. doi:10.1017/S0022278X00007618.
- ^ Mendy, Peter Michael Karibe; Lobban, Richard (2013). Historical dictionary of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (4th ed.). Lanham (Md.): Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-0-8108-5310-2.
- ^ "The World Factbook 1985" (PDF). geographic.org. CIA.
- ^ "The World Factbook 1991". Central Intelligence Agency. 1991.
- ^ "GUINEA-BISSAU". GUINEA-BISSAU. De Gruyter. 21 June 2021. pp. 584–586. doi:10.1515/9783112420621-081/pdf?licensetype=restricted&srsltid=afmboor3fc4rhfvajh0eekgyvbmcfi1tlfrytwckgcj2dekb4qbu_jai.
- ^ "AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL REPORT 1992" (PDF). ISBN 0862102103.
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