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Guinea-Bissau’s government announced three days of mourning on Sunday following the death of former interim president Henrique Pereira Rosa.
Flags will be flown at half mast and businesses will close as a mark of respect ahead of a state funeral on Tuesday, when Rosa will be buried at a municipal cemetery in the capital Bissau.
Rosa died on May 15 aged 67 in the Portuguese city of Porto, where he had been undergoing treatment for cancer.
He took office in 2003 following a military coup that deposed the elected government of Kumba Yala, but lost elections in 2005 to Joao Bernardo Vieira.