On Thursday, July 10 at 9:00 a.m. ET, the Atlantic Council will host an #ACFrontPage conversation with President Umaro Sissoco Embaló of Guinea-Bissau.  

Embaló will be joining the Atlantic Council while he is in Washington, DC for a summit between West African leaders and US President Donald Trump. The discussion comes amid a shift in relations between Africa and the United States—with new US tariff policies, a pivot toward “trade rather than aid,” the sunsetting of the US Agency for International Development, and a US-backed peace plan between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.  

In conversation with Atlantic Council Africa Center Senior Director Rama Yade, Embaló will discuss the significance of the summit with the US president and his fellow African leaders, as well as his vision for relations between his country, the wider African continent, and the United States. Embaló—who has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin  to discuss economic, security, and mining cooperation, and with President Xi Jinping in China, where relations between the two countries were elevated to the rank of “strategic partnership”—will also address the non-aligned foreign policy he has pursued since coming to power in 2020.  

This edition of #ACFrontPage, hosted by the Africa Center, will take place in person at the Atlantic Council’s headquarters in Washington, DC. The event will also be livestreamed on Atlantic Council TV, YouTube, Facebook, and X. To join us in person or virtually, please complete the registration form. 

Atlantic Council Front Page is our premier live ideas platform for global leaders to discuss the defining challenges of our time. #ACFrontPage is a high-level event series featuring top newsmakers across multiple digital platforms. Harnessing the convening power and expertise of the Council’s sixteen programs and centers, #ACFrontPage leverages the Council’s capabilities in social media, press, and digital outreach to spotlight the world’s most prominent leaders and the most compelling ideas across sectors and engage new audiences eager for nonpartisan and constructive solutions to current global challenges. This widely promoted program features the Council’s most important guests and content serving as the highlight of our programming.