Background and career
Brigadier General Ansumane Mané (c. 1940 – 30 November 2000) was a Bissau-Guinean military officer who led a 1998 uprising against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira, which caused a brief but bloody civil war.
Mané participated in the independence war against Portugal where he was Vieira's bodyguard. A close ally of Vieira, he backed him in the 1980 coup against Guinea Bissau President Luís Cabral. Mané was head of the armed forces of Guinea Bissau during Vieira's presidency before Vieira sacked him in 1998, accusing him of smuggling arms to Casamance separatist rebels in Senegal. Mané subsequently mobilized the troops formerly under his command and led a rebellion against Vieira.
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