{"id":11024,"date":"2014-04-04T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=11024"},"modified":"2014-04-04T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T13:19:51","slug":"guinea-bissaus-ex-president-kumba-yala-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=11024","title":{"rendered":"Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s ex-President Kumba Yala dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11029\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11029\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5953852917688_9541286984458.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11029\" alt=\"Kumba Yala, who was overthrown in a coup in 2003, was known for his trademark woollen hat\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5953852917688_9541286984458.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5953852917688_9541286984458.jpg 650w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/5953852917688_9541286984458-300x207.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11029\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kumba Yala, who was overthrown in a coup in 2003, was known for his trademark woollen hat<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s ex-President Kumba Yala, who ruled the former Portuguese colony from 2000 until 2003, has died.<\/p>\n<p>A former philosophy teacher, Mr Yala won presidential elections in 2000 following a bitter civil war in the late 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>He was ousted three years later in one of the West African nation&#8217;s many military takeovers.<\/p>\n<p>His death at the age of 61 comes 10 days before elections intended to draw a line under the latest coup, in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea-Bissau is one of the poorest countries in the world and has been further destabilised by the booming illegal drugs trade from Latin America, which uses it as a staging post for the European market.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Yala, who headed the opposition Party for Social Renewal (PRS), had recently announced his intention to retire from politics.<\/p>\n<p>He had not given his backing to his party&#8217;s presidential candidate in the forthcoming polls, instead voicing support for an independent candidate.<\/p>\n<p>Correspondents say that the former president was known for his nationalism, fiery speeches and trademark woollen hat.<\/p>\n<p>A statement from the country&#8217;s military hospital said Mr Yala had died of a sudden cardiac arrest, Reuters news agency reports.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s ex-President Kumba Yala, who ruled the former Portuguese colony from 2000 until 2003, has died. A former philosophy teacher, Mr Yala won presidential elections in 2000 following a bitter civil war in the late 1990s. He was ousted three years later in one of the West African nation&#8217;s many military takeovers. His death at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":11029,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-11024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-papa-owusu-ankomah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11024\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}