Guinea-Bissau News

The UN believes the Boeing plane had just unloaded its cargo of cocaine in Mali in Western Africa when it crashed on take-off this month. West Africa has become a transit point for drug trafficking between South America and Europe....

In Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, children go door-to-door counting mosquito nets, monitoring hand-washing and checking the distance between kitchens and latrines. The activities are among efforts by health NGOs and authorities to fill the gap between cholera-prevention messages and behaviour, after...

Joao Bernardo Vieira led Guinea-Bissau for more than half of its time as an independent state. A military man, his turbulent history mirrors that of his country. He first came to power through a military coup and has also been...

Renegade soldiers have shot dead the president of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau. The killing of Joao Bernardo Vieira is thought to have been a revenge attack, after the army chief of staff died in an explosion a few...

The dangerous action taken by soldiers,for the first time in Guinea-Bissau. Soldiers have killed the president of the West African country of Guinea-Bissau. In the capital Bissau, there were explosions and severe gunfire near the presidential residence and military headquarters...

The President of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, has been killed a few hours after a bomb blast killed the nation's armed forces chief. It seems that renegade soldiers troops are the ones who conducted the attack on Vieira's residence with...