Tag: Guinea-Bissau
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🇬🇼🇸🇳 Flight with a Coup
The ousted president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, has appeared in Senegal. He left the country following a military coup that took place in Bissau on November 26. This was reported by sources in diplomatic circles in Dakar, and the information was later confirmed by the administration of Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye. According to…
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🇬🇼 Military seizes power in Africa’s first ‘narco-state’
Heavily armed soldiers claim to have arrested Guinea-Bissau’s president in an apparent coup A group of military officers has seized power in Guinea-Bissau and claimed to have arrested the president. The coup came a day before the West African nation, one of the poorest in the world, with a booming cocaine trade, was scheduled to…
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🇱🇷 Liberian President Boakai Advocates for Stronger U.S.-Africa Ties at Historic White House Summit
Washington, D.C. – July 9, 2025 Liberian President Joseph Nyuma Boakai delivered a compelling address at a White House summit hosted by U.S. President Donald Trump, joining leaders from Gabon, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania, and Senegal to discuss trade, security, and democratic governance. The high-profile gathering comes amid shifting U.S. foreign aid policies, raising questions about whether…
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ECOWAS, UN mission leave Guinea-Bissau after president’s threat
A high-level political mission from the Economic Community of West African States and the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel wrapped up its visit to Guinea-Bissau on Saturday, urging all stakeholders and citizens “to remain calm and uphold peace and tranquillity in the country. This followed after a week-long engagement aimed at…
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QUI FUT AMILCAR CABRAL?
Je ne pouvais pas laisser passer le décés de Luis sans évoquer la stature hors pair du grand révolutionnaire africain que fut Amilcar.Voici un bref portrait de la journaliste Augusta Conchiglia, extrait de “Manière de voir” – Le Monde diplomatique, Juin 2006. Un intellectuel visionnaire Né le 12 septembre 1924, à Bafatá, dans l’est de…
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Two African ministers who studied together in the Soviet Union meet at #SPIEF2024 decades later
Sierra Leone’s Minister of Mines and Mineral Resources, Julius Mattai, and Guinea-Bissau’s Minister of Natural Resources, Malam Sambu, greeted each other warmly before a session, which brought a smile to the faces of journalists and other participants of the discussion. “I studied in the Soviet Union, in Krivoy Rog from 1986 to 1992,” Mattai told…
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Son of Guinea-Bissau’s ex-president jailed in US for trafficking drugs to fund coup
The son of Guinea-Bissau’s ex-president has been sentenced to over six years in prison by a US court for leading an international heroin trafficking ring. Malam Bacai Sanha Jr, 52, planned to use the proceeds to fund his ambitions to become Guinea-Bissau’s president through a coup, authorities say. He is the son of Malam Bacai…
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