# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/malam-bacai-sanha
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:42:33.441Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/malam-bacai-sanha"
name: "Malam Bacai Sanhá"
slug: "malam-bacai-sanha"
description: "Malam Bacai Sanhá was a Bissau-Guinean politician who was President of Guinea-Bissau from 8 September 2009 until his death on 9 January 2012. A member of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), Sanhá was President of the National People's Assembly from 1994 to 1999 and then served as acting President of Guinea-Bissau from 14 May 1999, to 17 February 2000, following the ouster of President João Bernardo Vieira. Standing as the PAIGC candidate, he placed second in the 1999–2000 presidential election as well as the 2005 presidential election before winning the June–July 2009 presidential election."
tagline: "President of Guinea-Bissau (1947-2012)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Malam_Bacai_Sanh%C3%A1.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1947-05-05"
deathDate: "2012-01-09"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump