Soares Sambu

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Soares Sambu was the foreign minister of Guinea-Bissau from May 2004 to November 2005. He was appointed to that position in May 2004, as part of the government of the new Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes Júnior, led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which both Gomes and Sambu belong to. Sambu was the vice-president of Guinea-Bissau's parliament when it was dissolved in 2002, and he was the campaign manager for his party during the 2004 parliamentary elections, in which they achieved gains.^[1] He was the eleventh foreign minister of Guinea-Bissau in five years. He left office shortly after Carlos Gomes's government was dismissed.