For this to happen though, President José Mário Vaz much break the deadlock between government, parliament and the executive.

Not a single head of state has managed to see out a full term since the country became independent of Portugal in1974.

Guinea Bissau has seen three coups, a civil war and the assassination of a president and army chief.

South America drug cartels took advantage of the instability to use the country as a transit point for smuggling cocaine into Europe.

Islamist militants in the region tapped into the drug money to finance their operations.

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