BISSAU - Coup-prone Guinea-Bissau holds elections on Sunday, with President Umaro Sissoco Embalo trying to become the first leader in three decades to make it through to a second consecutive term in the West African nation.

He is facing off against 11 other candidates, the strongest of them relative political newcomer Fernando Dias who has the backing of the leader of the revolutionary party that led the fight for independence from Portugal in the 1960s and 1970s.