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‘You can’t just kill a president like a dog’

The blood-soaked kitchen where Guinea-Bissau’s president was brutally murdered is littered with broken glass, bullet casings and a rusted machete.

Guinea-Bissau opposition warns of fresh unrest

Guinea-Bissau’s main opposition party has warned of unrest as it criticised the "haste" in which the Parliament speaker was named interim leader.

Gunfire in Bissau after armed forces chief killed

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

Guinea Bissau Cabinet sacks media chiefs

The Guinea Bissau Cabinet on Tuesday sacked heads of the national radio and television on Tuesday for allegedly failing to send reporters to cover an address by the president.…

The people must eat, says new Guinea-Bissau leader

Guinea-Bissau’s newly appointed Prime Minister on Tuesday declared that national reconciliation will be his main aim in office. ”Our society is divided to the point of having…

Guinea-Bissau seeks way out of coup-prone poverty

With its red-tiled roof and pink facade holed by rockets and bullets, Guinea-Bissau’s ruined presidential palace is a monument to the fratricidal conflict that has kept this tiny…

Former president tries on his old crown

Former Guinea-Bissau president Kumba Yala and a number of soldiers moved into the presidential palace in the capital Bissau for a few hours early on Wednesday as tension simmered…

Ousted Guinea-Bissau leader says he’s still in charge

Tight security cloaked coup-prone Guinea Bissau on Monday as top officials held crisis talks to digest a claim from ousted president Kumba Yala that he remains head of the West…

Locusts threaten Guinea-Bissau’s cashew nuts

Guinea-Bissau has been hit by an unseasonal invasion of desert locusts that threatens to damage the small West African country’s cashew-nut trees that are currently in flower.…

Army ousts president of Guinea-Bissau

President Kumba Yala of Guinea-Bissau was deposed by the army in a bloodless coup on Sunday after delaying parliamentary elections in this small West African state for nearly a…