Guinea-Bissau News

The U.N. health agency says severe flooding in West Africa is increasing the risk of deadly cholera and malaria outbreaks in the region.

The oil interests of Angola, Brazil and Portugal could pave the way for former Spanish colony Equatorial Guinea to become the ninth member of the Community of Portuguese Language Countries two years from now, ...

A commission made up of 80 people from 13 different African countries visited the northwestern province of Balykesir to inspect a poultry production facility last week.

This is stated in a provocative way. "If you voted in the last election, you probably voted for prohibition.

The Daily Observer Following reports of a foiled coup in the West African nation of Guinea Bissau, The Gambia Government has announced the arrest of the alleged coup leader, Rear Admiral Jose Americo Bubu Na ...

Mauritania's attorney general says five people were arrested on terrorism charges.

Rear Adm. Bubo Na Tchuto escaped last week from house arrest in his country and was detained in Gambia, a day after he arrived in the West African country by sea, the government said in a statement.

By Alberto Dabo

BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's navy chief, who was arrested last week and accused of trying to stage a coup, has escaped custody and fled to nearby Gambia, the armed forces said on Tuesday.

Rear-Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto was held after he was accused of trying to muster support for a coup while the head of the armed forces was out of the country.

The former Portuguese colony is in the throes of a political crisis that has forced the president to dissolve parliament and name a new prime minister. A new government was sworn in at the weekend.

ZIGUINCHOR, 4 August 2008 - The soaring price of cashew nuts in Senegal's restive southern region Casamance is lining the pockets of armed rebels according to Isma la Di ©dhiou, an agricultural expert who ...

BAFATA, 7 August 2008 - Boubacar Seidi is a rice-farmer in Contuboel, Bafata Region, 80km east of Bissau.

Rising food and fuel costs could trigger social conflict in Guinea-Bissau according to the latest report by the International Monetary Fund , published last week.

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the managing director of the World Bank, delivered a message of hope to the people of Guinea Bissau at the end of her two-day visit to the West African country recently.

The tiny west African state of Guinea Bissau was again plunged into political turmoil Tuesday after the president dissolved the parliament months before planned elections and appointed a caretaker premier.

THE bravery and fervour Cuban revolutionaries have displayed since time immemorial, from Jose Marti and General Antonio Maceo to Che Guevara and Vilma Espin, have always been an inspiration to those that truly ...

An estimated 70 million girls and women in 27 African and Middle Eastern countries have been circumcised.

This is so intriquing.. Guinea-Bissau is a very impoverished country; but apparently that makes them ideal for the latin american cartels to utilize as a drug transhipment point.

A cholera epidemic sweeping across Guinea Bissau has now infected 1,077 people - three-quarters of them in the capital Bissau - and killed 25, leading experts to ask why lessons from previous epidemics have not ...

A United Nations official has called the situation in Guinea-Bissau tense, after the minister of justice staged a press conference to denounce threats against her life in connection with a drug investigation.

The United Nations is worried that a booming drugs trade in West Africa could spark new violence and erase some of the stability the region has gained after years of war and strife, an official said Thursday.

A cholera epidemic is spreading in Guinea-Bissau. Brent Latham reports from our West Africa bureau in Dakar that health workers say the epidemic has resisted their efforts to contain it, and is likely to ...