Guinea-Bissau
Mali crisis set to dominate AU summit
Jan 26, 2013 20:50 EST
The war against Islamist militants in northern Mali including the deployment of African troops is expected to dominate talks at the African Union summit in Ethiopia opening Sunday.
G.Bissau president says May poll 'impossible'
Jan 21, 2013 09:08 EST
Guinea-Bissau's interim President Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo said a general election planned for May after a 12-month post-coup transition would be "impossible".
G.Bissau president says poll in May 'impossible'
Jan 21, 2013 08:12 EST
Guinea-Bissau's interim President Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo said a general election planned for May after a 12-month post-coup transition would be "impossible".
Jose Ramos-Horta named UN envoy to G.Bissau
Dec 31, 2012 21:52 EST
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has tapped Jose Ramos-Horta, a former East Timor president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, as his new special representative to coup-stricken Guinea-Bissau.
Scores in hospital after Guinea-Bissau boat capsizes
Dec 29, 2012 09:47 EST
Rescue workers recovered the bodies of 24 people who drowned after an overloaded boat capsized off the capital of Guinea-Bissau, while 76 survivors were admitted to hospital and another nine people remain missing, an official said Saturday.
22 dead, 69 missing in G. Bissau shipwreck
Dec 28, 2012 11:37 EST
At least 22 people died and 69 were missing after their overloaded boat sank Friday off the capital of Guinea-Bissau, rescue workers said.
Obama strips Mali, Guinea-Bissau of trade benefits
Dec 20, 2012 17:41 EST
US President Barack Obama on Thursday stripped Mali and Guinea-Bissau of their US trade privileges, citing backtracking from democracy in the two countries.
Six more countries added to landmine-free list
Dec 07, 2012 13:51 EST
Six more countries have been added to the list of nations that have eliminated "the scourge of landmines", organisers of a conference on the deadly weapons said Friday.
UN envoy quits Guinea Bissau
Dec 06, 2012 13:15 EST
The United Nations' top envoy to coup-stricken Guinea Bissau has left the country, two months after the civilian authorities brought to power by the junta demanded his departure, an official said Thursday.
5 more countries to end use of child soldiers: UN
Dec 05, 2012 14:49 EST
Five more countries -- Bolivia, Comoros, Guinea Bissau, Kuwait and Yemen -- have signed up to an international declaration promising to end the use of child soldiers, officials said Wednesday.
G.Bissau warns AIDS patients without treatment since coup
Nov 21, 2012 14:59 EST
HIV-positive people in Guinea Bissau have been without access to treatment since the Global Fund to fight AIDS suspended funding over an April military coup, the west African nation's AIDS boss said Wednesday.
I. Coast leader meets pope after dissolving government
Nov 16, 2012 13:24 EST
Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara met Pope Benedict XVI amid heightened security on Friday, two days after he dissolved the government following a falling out between the ruling parties.
West Africa agrees on 3,300-strong force for Mali
Nov 11, 2012 15:03 EST
West African leaders at an emergency summit on Sunday agreed on a 3,300-strong force to wrest control of northern Mali from Islamist extremists as fears grow over risks they pose to the region and beyond.
G.Bissau ex-premier denies role in counter-coup bid
Nov 08, 2012 11:48 EST
Guinea Bissau's former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior, who was ousted in an April coup, denied Thursday the transition government's "absurd" accusations that he had instigated a recent foiled counter-coup.
West African bloc gives G.Bissau $63 mln for army reform
Nov 07, 2012 13:14 EST
Chronically unstable Guinea-Bissau got $63 million (49 million euros) Wednesday from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) to help the country reform its army as it recovers from an April coup.
G. Bissau's alleged coup mastermind to face military court
Oct 30, 2012 14:11 EDT
The alleged mastermind of an attack on a military barracks in Guinea-Bissau, which government has described as a coup attempt backed by Portugal, will face a military court, the army said Tuesday.
G. Bissau alleged coup plotter to face military court
Oct 30, 2012 11:59 EDT
The alleged mastermind of an attack on a military barracks in Guinea-Bissau, which government has described as a coup attempt backed by Portugal, will face a military court, the army said Tuesday.
Guinea-Bissau army arrests alleged coup leader
Oct 27, 2012 17:42 EDT
Guinea Bissau's military on Saturday arrested the man accused of being the mastermind behind an attack on an elite army barracks a week ago which the government said was an attempted coup.
Guinea-Bissau army arrests alleged coup leader: military
Oct 27, 2012 13:50 EDT
Guinea Bissau's military on Saturday announced the arrest of the man accused of being the mastermind behind an attack on an elite army barracks a week ago which the government said was an attempted coup.
Guinea-Bissau hunts authors of foiled coup blamed on Portugal
Oct 22, 2012 13:23 EDT
Guinea-Bissau security forces were hunting Monday for armed men behind a foiled coup bid in the chronically unstable nation, which the government has accused former colonial ruler Portugal of instigating.
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