Guinea-Bissau’s President Jose Mario Vaz has dismissed the entire government following a rift with Prime Minister Domingos Pereira.

According to the BBC reports,”The two men are said to have disagreed on a number of issues including the use of aid money and the return to Guinea-Bissau of a former army chief of staff.

The West African state returned to civilian rule in June last year.

With a history of coups, no elected leader has served a full term since independence from Portugal in 1974.
Many senior military officers have also been accused of turning the country into a narco-state as it a major hub for cocaine smuggled from Latin America to Europe.”

In a televised address, Mr Vaz said a simple reshuffle would not be sufficient to solve the problem.

“It is public knowledge that there is a crisis undermining the proper working of institutions,” the AFP news agency quoted him as saying.

Meanwhile the UN Security Council has asked the leaders to resume dialogue.