Voters in Guinea-Bissau have cast ballots for a new president, hoping to elect someone who can bring peace and stability to their impoverished nation.
Guinea-Bissau’s election will go to a second round after Sunday’s vote failed to produce a clear winner, the electoral commission said on Thursday.
A presidential election in Guinea-Bissau to replace murdered head of state Joao Bernardo Vieira was ”free and transparent”, the EU said on Wednesday.
A former Guinea-Bissau prime minister, Jose Fadul, said on Wednesday he was beaten up by men in uniform at his home.
Political parties in Guinea-Bissau agreed on Tuesday to hold elections on June 28 to replace the country’s assassinated president.
The blood-soaked kitchen where Guinea-Bissau’s president was brutally murdered is littered with broken glass, bullet casings and a rusted machete.
Nino Vieira, the president of Guinea-Bissau who was shot dead aged 69 in the capital on Monday, was one of the most plotted against of African leaders
Guinea-Bissau’s National Assembly speaker Raimundo Pereira will take oath as interim head of state on Tuesday afternoon.
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.
The African Union and former colonial power Portugal on Monday led calls condemning the assassination of Guinea-Bissau’s leader Joao Bernardo Vieira.
Guinea-Bissau soldiers gunned down veteran President Joao Bernardo Vieira as he fled his home early on Monday, a military spokesperson said.
Automatic gunfire and the crump of heavier explosions rang out in Guinea-Bissau’s capital Bissau early on Monday, a Reuters witness said.
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/ 23 November 2008
Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau attacked the home of President Joao Bernardo ”Nino” Vieira early on Sunday a day after election results were announced.
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 been rendered fragile. For this reason, our first order of business is the reunification of all Guinea-Bissauans,” said Martinho N’Dafa Cabi.
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/ 3 November 2006
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 West African state crushed by poverty. The palace, built under Portuguese colonial rule, was attacked and looted during a 1998-1999 civil war which killed more than 2 000 people.
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 African state. A pro-peace rally that aimed to discredit Yala’s statements was held and dispersed without incident in central Bissau.
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. Exports of cashew nuts are the main source of foreign exchange for this former Portuguese colony.
Guinea-Bissau’s President Kumba Yala dissolved parliament on Friday, officials said, in a move that means an end to Prime Minister Alamara Nhasse’s government in the west African country.