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Several arrests in the army headquarters following an attack
Several arrests have been made following the attack of the army headquarters on Monday by the supporting transitional government forces including the elements of...
Struggling for Democracy in Guinea-Bissau: Drug Trafficking, Military and Politics
Repeated coups, military rebellions and political assassinations have transformed Guinea-Bissau, the new hub for cocaine trafficking (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime) into...
Guinea-Bissau: A time for change
The government of Guinea-Bissau, including its military, civil society, political parties and diplomatic corps have been challenged to work together and build a stable...
Guinea-Bissau: EU and U.S. lose war against crime?
The European Union has given up on its mission to build a stable democracy in Guinea-Bissau just two years after it launched a mission...
Drug cartels losing ground in African drug war?
Security authorities in The Gambia have seized about $1bn worth of cocaine on transit from South America to Europe. The authorities also seized large...
Guinea-Bissau: A confused coup d’etat?
Civil unrest in Guniea-Bissau has intensified as rebellion leader threatens to kill kidnapped prime minister, while the army chief remains in detention in what...
West Africa: A common visa for UEMOA states
The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) has moved a step closer to establishing a common visa that will allow free movement within...
Guinea-Bissau presidential elections: Fate of results in the hands of the military?
The second round of presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau, Sunday, saw two political elephants standing against each other: Malam Bacai Sanha (African Party for the...
Guinea Bissau: Elections so far free and fair
The European Union monitored elections in Guinea Bissau has been reported to be void of any rigging or violence so far. EU observers posted...
Guinea Bissau: Political killings unmask a top narco-state
Guinea-Bissau Military have killed presidential aspirant Mr. Baciro Dabo and former defense minister Helder Proenca, three weeks ahead of national polls. Ex-prime minister...
Guinea-Bissau murders: prosecutor lacks financial means to continue investigations
Luis Manuel Cabral, Attorney General for Guinea-Bissau, said Tuesday that he was "lacking the financial means to continue investigations" into the assassinations of both...
Guinea-Bissau: Soldiers thrash former Prime Minister
José Fadul, Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau in 1999 and currently opposition member and president of the Court of Auditors, was attacked Wednesday by men...
African Union holds extraordinary meeting on Guinea-Bissau
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union holds, Tuesday, an extraordinary meeting on Guinea-Bissau following the assassination of President Joao Bernardo Viera,...
Guinea Bissau: High profile killings linked to rivalry
Monday’s high profile killings in the Guinean capital city of Bissau have neither been linked to a coup d’état nor connected with the booming...
Guinea-Bissau: Military chief killed, President follows suit
The President of Guinea Bissau, Jao Bernado Vieira, 69, was assassinated early Monday morning by a group of military personnel in the country’s capital,...
Guinea Bissau: President Vieira assassinated by the military
The President of Guinea Bissau, Jao Bernado Vieira, 69, was assassinated early Monday morning by a group of military personnel in the country's capital,...
Suspected brain behind Guinea-Bissau coup arrested
Alexandre Ntchama Yala, the suspected brain behind the 23 November coup attempt against Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, was arrested in Gambia Tuesday...
Guinea Bissau’s affair with Coup d’etats and Cocaine
Last Sunday when millions of people on the African continent found themselves in various churches worshipping, a group of military officers in Guinea-Bissau were...
Guinea Bissau congratulated by the United States for successful elections
The United States has joined a growing list of other countries and organisations hailing the conduct of the legislative elections in the West African...
EU makes donation to tackle cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau
The European Union (EU) has donated 500,000 euros to Guinea-Bissau to enable it tackle the cholera epidemic ravaging the country. About 12,000 people have...
Guinea Bissau police arrest officials over disappearance of large quantities of narcotic drugs
The police have arrested four agents of Guinea Bissau's migration and border services and their leader over the disappearance of a large quantity of...
Hundreds die in Guinea-Bissau from cholera infections
The cholera epidemic ravaging Guinea-Bissau since May has claimed at least 122 lives of the 6,328 cases reported, the Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology...
Guinea-Bissau fast becoming a narcotics and terrorism haven
The Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG) has stressed the need for urgent support to Guinea-Bissau from the international community to save the country from...
Bissau-Guinean MPs tenure extended
Bissau-Guinean MPs on Wednesday passed a motion extending their tenure due to the lack of funds for the organisation of parliamentary polls which are...
Guinea Bissau to hold parliamentary polls November 16
Parliamentary elections in Guinea Bissau will take place 16 November, a decree by President Joao Bernardo Vieira, published here Wednesday announced. For the organisation...
Drug traffickers hold Guinea Bissau hostage
Secretary General of the International Narcotics Control Board (INCB), Koli Kouame Tuesday described Guinea Bissau as a country completely abandoned by the international community...
Muslims in Bissau opposed to debate in Parliament on FGM
Muslims in Guinea Bissau on Friday said they were opposed to the upcoming debate in Parliament on female genital mutilation (FGM) when the House...
Board of Directors of John Paul II Foundation begins weeklong meeting
The 26th session of the Board of Directors of the John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel began in Ouagadougou on Monday to enable...
Mauritanian police arrests 3 alleged terrorists
At least three people, close to the Salafist mov ement in Mauritania, were arrested this weekend by the police, Mauritanian newsp a per, Al-Akhbar,...
Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: On the child trafficking route
In northern Guinea-Bissau, in the dark of night, a dilapidated bus carrying 17 children is parked on a quiet side road. Its driver awaits...