Adiato Djaló Nandigna (born 6 November 1958) is a Bissau-Guinean politician and a former acting Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau. Her government was overthrown in the

2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état On 12 April 2012, a coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau was staged by elements of the armed forces about two weeks before the second round of a 2012 Guinea-Bissau presidential election, presidential election between Carlos Gomes Júnior and Kumba Ial ...

, and she was arrested by the security services in 2013. She later returned as the Minister of Defence in the 2015 cabinet of Prime Minister Carlos Correia.

Political career

By 2008, Nandigna was serving as the Minister for Culture, Youth and Sports within the government of Guinea-Bissau. She was acting Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 10 February to 12 April 2012. She was the first prime minister appointed by her predecessor (as the interim president can not appoint the prime minister) and also the first female holder of the office. She also served as the government's spokeswoman. She had previously been the Minister for Communications under Prime Minister

Carlos Gomes Júnior Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior (born December 19, 1949)
(in Portuguese). is a Presidency A presidency is an administration or the executive, the collective administrative and governmental entity that exists around an office of president of a state or nation. Although often the executive branch of government, and often personified b ...

following the death of

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. She was deposed in a

coup d'état A coup d'état (; ; ), or simply a coup , is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership. A self-coup is said to take place when a leader, having come to powe ...

, along with the

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and other civilian government members. During the coup, she came under fire directly. Nandigna was arrested on 21 November 2013 by the Guinea-Bissau intelligence and security services, a move which was criticised by the Guinean Human Rights League. After becoming an adviser to President

José Mário Vaz José Mário Vaz (born 10 December 1957) is a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as List of Presidents of Guinea-Bissau, president of Guinea-Bissau from 23 June 2014 to 27 February 2020. Early life Popularly known by the nickname "Jomav," Jo ...

, she was named to the post of Minister of Defence in 2015 under acting Prime Minister Carlos Correia. She continued in this role in 2016, when she spoke of the difficulties in tackling drug smuggling around the Bissagos Islands.

References

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