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São Tomé and Príncipe (Vol 19, 2022)

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Gerhard Seibert
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In September, the Ação Democrática Independente (adi) gained an absolute majority in the legislative elections and, after four years in opposition, returned to power with party leader Patrice Trovoada as prime minister, for the fourth time since 2008. Two weeks after Trovoada had assumed office, the country was shocked by the news of a failed armed assault on the military barracks to seize arms, and the subsequent arbitrary killings of four of the men arrested for their supposed involvement of the attack. A concession agreement signed by the outgoing executive with a Ghanaian company on the construction, modernisation, and management of ports was immediately classified as harmful to the country’s interests by the new Trovoada government.

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