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Ten Guinea-Bissau civic leaders reject a rival network’s claims about their 19 October Dakar meeting and deny any United Nations role in organising it.
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Guinea-Bissau counts votes as president seeks second term and main opposition party is barred
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Counting of votes is underway in Guinea-Bissau where voting for presidential and legislative seats took place on Sunday for President Umaro Sissoco Embaló who is seeking a ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Guinea-Bissau approves new constitution that expands presidential powers
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Election officials count ballots for the constitutional referendum at a polling station after voting closed in Bissau, ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Guinea-Bissau: The ‘narco-state’ the US virtually ignores
On November 26, soldiers of the Presidential Guard took power in yet another West African country. This time, it was Guinea-Bissau — the tiny country on the Atlantic coast better known to the world as ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Guinea-Bissau votes in a referendum on granting the president expanded powers
FILE - Guinea-Bissau Transitional President General Horta Inta-A-Na Man, centre, and President of Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye walk during an official ECOWAS mission to help resolve Guinea-Bissau's ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Guinea-Bissau soldiers appoint ally of deposed president as prime minister
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau on Friday appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister, after seizing power following disputed national elections earlier ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: West African bloc calls for Guinea-Bissau opposition leader's release
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Presidential candidate Domingos Simoes Pereira holds a meeting with students at Lusophone university in Bissau, Guinea ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Armed men take power in Guinea-Bissau, again
After a two-year lull, during which optimists could have imagined the contagion had stopped, Africa appears to have experienced two coups in as many months. On November 26th army officers in ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Nigerian law firm takes Guinea-Bissau regime to ECOWAS court over Pereira detention
A Nigerian law firm has filed a case at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice seeking the release of Domingos Simões Pereira, Guinea-Bissau’s opposition leader and former parliamentary speaker, along ...
News Guinea-Bissau » Bissau » Politics: Guinea-Bissau Denies US$1.6m Vaccine Trial
Guinea-Bissau's health minister denies authorising a US-funded vaccine trial on newborns, as researchers say a US$1.6 million study awaits clearance.