AYV News, December 3, 2025
The Chairman of the Authority of ECOWAS Heads of State and Government, Dr. Julius Maada Bio, who doubles as President of Sierra Leone, has engaged in a constructive discussion with Guinea-Bissau’s military leadership headed by Major-General Horta Inta-a, reaffirming ECOWAS’s continues commitment to restore constitutional order, pursuant to the communiqué of the Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council.
Accompanied by Dr. Omar Allieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, Leonardo Santos Simão, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for West Africa and the Sahel, and Alhaji Timothy Musa Kabba, Sierra Leone’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Chair of the Executive Council of ECOWAS, President Bio’s visit to Guinea-Bissau followed a mandate from an extraordinary session of ECOWAS Mediation and Security Council. The mandate charged the Chair of the Authority with leading a high-level mission to engage with the leaders of the coup to ensure the full restoration of constitutional order.
During the visit, President Bio and his delegation also met with the Electoral Commission of Guinea-Bissau, where itsChairman and other members provided briefing on the current electoral situation.
