Kumba Ialá
Sign in to saveAlso known as Mohamed Ialá Embaló, Kumba Iala, Mohamed Iala Embalo, Kumba Ialá Embaló
Bissau-Guinean politician (1953-2014)
OverviewAI-generated
Kumba Yalá Embaló (1953–2014) was a Guinean politician and member of the Balanta ethnic group. Born in Bula, he was a citizen of Guinea-Bissau and practiced Islam. He received his education at the Catholic University of Portugal and spoke Portuguese. Throughout his career, he was affiliated with the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde and the Party for Social Renewal.
Yalá served as the President of Guinea-Bissau. He died on April 4, 2014, in Bissau from natural causes, specifically cardiac arrest and myocardial infarction. He is buried at the Fortaleza de São José da Amura.
Synthesized by Vinony from 25 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Prime minister
- Caetano N'Tchama , Faustino Imbali , Alamara Nhassé , Mário Pires
- Preceded by
- Malam Bacai Sanhá (Acting)
- Succeeded by
- Veríssimo Correia Seabra (as Chairman of the Military Committee for the Restoration of Constitutional and Democratic Order)
- Born
- ( 1953-03-15 ) 15 March 1953, Bula , Portuguese Guinea
- Died
- 4 April 2014 (2014-04-04) (aged 61), Bissau , Guinea-Bissau
- Cause of death
- Cardiac arrest
- Resting place
- Fortaleza de São José da Amura
- Party
- African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (Before 1992) , Party for Social Renewal (1992–2014)
- Spouse
- Elisabete Yala
- Alma mater
- Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Guinea-Bissau
- Place of birth
- Bula
- Place of death
- Bissau
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- President of Guinea-Bissau
- Educated at
- Catholic University of Portugal
- Political party
- Party for Social Renewal
- Languages spoken
- Portuguese
- Religion
- Islam
- Image
- Koumbayala.jpg
Show 8 more facts
- date of death
- 2014-04-04
- date of birth
- 1953-03-15
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
- Commons category
- Kumba Yalá
- ethnic group
- Balanta people
- birth name
- Kumba Yalá Embaló
- place of burial
- Fortaleza de São José da Amura
Sources (1)
via Wikidata · CC0
~12 min read
Encyclopedic overview
Kumba Yalá Embaló, also spelled Ialá (15 March 1953 – 4 April 2014), was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was president from 17 February 2000 until he was deposed in a bloodless military coup on 14 September 2003. He belonged to the Balanta ethnic group and was President of the Social Renewal Party (PRS). In 2008 he converted to Islam and took the name Mohamed Yalá Embaló. He was the founder of the Party for Social Renewal.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kumba Ialá” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.