Guinea-Bissau News

The United Nations Peacebuilding Fund has swiftly become a unique and dynamic tool to help countries emerging from conflict avoid slipping back into war, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report published ...

T HE Ministers of Energy in Economic Community of West African States member countries have adopted measures to address the energy crisis in the West African sub-region. According to a statement from the ECOWAS ...

PETROLEUM products group Engen is on a buying spree as it feeds its seemingly big appetite for downstream acquisitions in its quest to be a market leader in southern Africa.

Opera Software today announced that Opera Mini is going to Africa. Opera Software has partnered with MTN, the leading telecommunications company in Uganda, to bring the mobile Web to the company's nearly three ...

Ghana's upcoming Election 2008 in December is a test for the West African region as it struggles for democratic consolidation.

BISSAU, 28 August 2008 - Recent political instability including the early August dissolution of government could delay long-awaited plans to reform Guinea-Bissau's swollen security sector which could impact the ...

BISSAU , 27 August 2008 - Up to 3,160 people have now contracted cholera and 73 people have died across the country and health minister Camilo Simoes Lopes told IRIN the authorities are struggling to win the ...

The heads of United Nations peacekeeping missions in West Africa today start a two-day meeting in Guinea-Bissau aimed at reviewing regional and national challenges to the success of their mandates.

"Three people, caught under their collapsing homes, have been reported dead, and eight seriously injured," it said.

Cocaine smuggling is fanning political turbulence and undermining investment confidence in West Africa, where drugs experts say Latin American gangs threaten to transform small nations into "narco-states". ...

Bissau, Aug 20 Guinea Bissau Defense Minister Marciano Barbeiro deemed the Armed Forces reform irreversible and essential for national future.

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.

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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 ...