Mamadu Ture Kuruma

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{{Short description|Military leader of Guinea-Bissau in 2012}}

{{hatnote|This name uses Portuguese naming customs: the first or maternal family name is Ture and the second or paternal family name is Kuruma.}}{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Mamadu Ture Kuruma

|office = Chairman of the Military Command of Guinea-Bissau

|term_start = 12 April 2012

|term_end = 11 May 2012

|predecessor = Raimundo Pereira (Acting President)

|successor = Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo (Acting President)

|birth_date = 26 April 1947

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|party = Independent

|allegiance = {{flag|Guinea-Bissau}}

|branch = Army

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Major General Mamadu Ture Kuruma (or N'Krumah; born 26 April 1947) is a Bissau-Guinean military vice-chief of staff and the leader of the Military Command that took power following a coup against acting president Raimundo Pereira and former prime minister and leading candidate for president Carlos Gomes Júnior. On 13 April, he promised to form a national unity government within days.{{Cite news |date=15 April 2012 |title=Guinea-Bissau opposition vows to reach deal with junta |work=Radio Netherlands Worldwide Africa |agency=Algemeen Nederlands Persbureau and Agence France-Presse |url=http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/guinea-bissau-opposition-vows-reach-deal-junta |url-status=dead |access-date=15 October 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141012103639/http://www.rnw.nl/africa/bulletin/guinea-bissau-opposition-vows-reach-deal-junta |archive-date=12 October 2014}} On 18 May 2012, the United Nations Security Council adopted a resolution on the travel ban for members of the Military Command, including Kuruma.{{Cite web |title=Security Council Imposes Travel Ban on Five Leaders of Coup in Guinea-Bissau, Demands Immediate Steps to Restore Constitutional Order |url=https://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2012/sc10653.doc.htm |url-status=dead |website=Security Council |access-date=29 June 2017 |archive-date=25 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130225030946/http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2012/sc10653.doc.htm }}