The head of state of Guinea-Bissau  advocates firmness to get off the ground in a country long plagued by political instability and drug trafficking. The man of poignancy known for his outspokenness, is on a crusade against drugs and corruption.

In an hour of interview with Le Monde Afrique, Umaro Sissoco Embalo came to power a year and a half ago, has nevertheless continued to compare himself to his counterparts around the world... and in particular to the Filipino Rodrigo Duterte, populist leader who has distinguished himself since his election, in 2016, by serious human rights violations in the name of the fight against drug trafficking and the defense of national security.

Umaro Sissoco Embalo simply claims to be "embaloïsme", which he summarizes as follows: "order, discipline and development". "Guinea-Bissau will no longer be the country you knew, where anyone does anything. It's over, done! " he told his voters on December 29, 2019, on the evening of his surprise victory against the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the historic separatist party. He describes corruption as a "social Covid" whose two "vaccines" would be "discipline and order". While hastening to specify: "I am not a dictator! But when the chef is reglo, society follows. He claims to have been at the origin of the imprisonment, in early May, of the former Minister of Health Antonio Deuna, accused of embezzlement.