Alberto Dabo

Guinea-Bissau’s President Malam Bacai Sanha has died in Paris at a hospital where he was undergoing treatment since late November last year.

Soldiers briefly held Guinea Bissau’s prime minister on Thursday and ousted the army chief of staff in the latest infighting to hit the country.

Military police in Guinea-Bissau on Friday killed a government minister who was to be a candidate in presidential elections.

African and Portuguese-speaking envoys flew to Guinea-Bissau on Tuesday to head off a possible coup after the president and army chief were killed.

Automatic gunfire and the crump of heavier explosions rang out in Guinea-Bissau’s capital Bissau early on Monday, a Reuters witness said.