Desejado Lima da Costa

In this Portuguese name, the first or maternal family name is Lima and the second or paternal family name is da Costa.

Desejado Lima da Costa was the president of the national election commission of Guinea-Bissau.^[1] After the 2012 Guinea-Bissau coup d'état, his son Camilo Lima da Costa told RDP Africa, that the soldiers had looted his father's house but that both his parents were safe.^[2] A few months later, on 22 October 2012, Desejado Lima da Costa died in Lisbon.^[3]