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UN boss optimistic about political stability in G/Bissau
The United Nations Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has implored on the leaders of Guinea Bissau to capitalize on the little progress gained in the country’s democratization process and regain the confidence of the masses in a bid to better...
Tags: United Nations, Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, Guinea Bissau, democratization, Security Council, suffering masses, assassinations, João Bernardo Vieira, Baciro Dabó, presidential elections, Malam Bacai Sanhá, Mohamed Yalá, Kumba Yala, Islam, international community, UNOGBIS, UNIOGBIS
Guinea on alert for 'attack plot'
Conakry :: Guinea | 5 months ago
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The West African state said armed men were gathering on the borders with Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north and Liberia to the south. An announcement on state-run national radio said drugs cartels were believed to be behind the plans. Guinea is a...
Tags: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, coup plot, Senegal, drugs cartels
Guinea-Bissau holds elections Sunday
Bissau :: Guinea-Bissau | 5 months ago
Credibility Guinea-Bissau, a West African country known for its political crises and coups, votes for a new leader on Sunday to replace the late President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, who was assassinated more than three months ago. The ballot in the tiny country...
Tags: Joao Bernardo Vieira, Guinea-Bissau, presidential elections, Guinea Bissau, president joao, president jammeh, Jammeh, african country
Guinea Bissau Election Campaign Enters Final Days
Bissau :: Guinea-Bissau | 5 months ago
Credibility Presidential candidates in Guinea Bissau are campaigning hard across the country ahead of Sunday's vote. Eleven candidates are running to succeed long-time President Joao Bernardo Vieira, who was killed in March. Supporters of Guinea Bissau's ruling-party...
Tags: Guinea Bissau
Angola opposition says president trying to stall polls
Lisbon :: ME :: USA | 9 months ago
Credibility Angola's main opposition party on Wednesday accused the government of seeking to delay a promised presidential election, calling any postponement an "attack on the sovereignty of the Angolan people". Unita (Union for Total Independence of Angola) leader...
Tags: José Eduardo dos Santos, Angola, Lisbon, presidential elections, Guinea Bissau, Portugal, Jose Eduardo dos Santos, president dos
Guinea-Bissau to bury president
Bissau :: Guinea-Bissau | 9 months ago
Credibility The state funeral is due to take place former President of Guinea Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira. He was assassinated a week ago by soldiers, just hours after the head of the country's military was killed in a bomb attack. The West African state has long...
Tags: West African, guineas bissau, Nino Vieira, Joao Bernardo Vieira, Guinea Bissau
Guinea-Bissau collapse deepens after leader killed
Bissau :: Guinea-Bissau | 9 months ago
Credibility The blood-soaked kitchen where Guinea-Bissau 's president was brutally murdered is littered with broken glass, bullet casings and a rusted machete. No crime scene tape cordons off the area, no police stand guard outside. No one has been arrested, and...
Tags: Reforming Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, João Bernardo Vieira, army chief, Guinea Bissau
EU condemns assassination of Guinea Bissau president
Bissau :: Guinea-Bissau | 9 months ago
Credibility The European Union (EU) condemned Monday the assassination of President of Guinea Bissau Joao Bernardo Vieira. "The (EU) Presidency condemns the assassinations of the president of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, and the chief of the armed forces,...
Tags: Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernardo Vieira, Raimundo Pereira, president joao, UN Security Council, Guinea Bissau, interim president, takes oath, armed forces, speaker raimundo
The President of Guinea-Bissau Shot Dead
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 rockets...
Tags: guinea bissau
Soldiers assassinate Guinea-Bissau president
Bissau :: Guinea-Bissau | 9 months ago
Credibility Soldiers assassinated the president of Guinea-Bissau in his palace Monday hours after a bomb blast killed his rival, but the military insisted no coup was taking place in the West African nation. A military statement broadcast on state radio attributed...
Tags: Joao Bernardo Vieiraâ, Guinea-Bissau, army chief, Jaoa Bernardo Vieira, West African, african nation, Mr Vieira, Bissau-Guinean, Guinea Bissau, president joao
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