Africa West Africa World 

Guinea-Bissau: Anger after government suspends teachers salaries

Teachers in Guinea-Bissau are up in arms with the government for suspending the payment of their salaries. The government has declared war on ghost civil servants on its payroll which it said has been bloated. A government statement said most of the fraudulent claims are going to fictitious workers. The country’s Council of Ministers this week instructed the education ministry… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

ECOWAS leaders hold summit in Guinea Bissau

West African leaders are meeting in Guinea Bissau’s capital Bissau on Sunday to discuss various issues affecting the region. The Heads of State will be considering reports from the Ninetieth Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Council of Ministers meeting held from July 6 to 7, 2023, in Bissau, a statement from ECOWAS said. The Sixty-Third Ordinary Session of the Authority… Read More
Africa Featured West Africa World 

Guinea-Bissau: Opposition coalition wins majority seats in parliament

In what is seen as a major blow to the government, Guinea-Bissau‘s opposition coalition has won majority seats parliament following last Sunday’s legislative elections. The PAI Terra Ranka coalition, led by the former ruling PAIGC party, won 54 of 102 seats, the electoral commission said on Thursday. Madem G15, the party of President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, who dissolved parliament in May last… Read More
Africa Featured West Africa World 

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Embalo elected ECOWAS chairman

– – Guinea Bissau President Umaro Embalo has assumed the position of ECOWAS Chairman for the next one year. He was elected at the Accra Summit to succeed Ghana’s Nana Akufo-Addo, who held the position for almost two years. The Sixty-First Ordinary Session of the Authority of Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

ECOWAS to deploy troops to Guinea-Bissau after coup attempt

– – ECOWAS leaders have said they will be deploying troops to Guinea-Bissau to help stabilize the country after Tuesday’s failed coup attempt. The country’s president Umaro Sissoco Embaló revealed this week that he and his cabinet were targeted in a coup attempt while attending a meeting. Gunfire was heard near the ministerial building where the meeting was taking place… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

Guinea-Bissau President speaks after failed coup attempt

– – Calm has now returned to Guinea-Bissau after Tuesday’s failed coup attempt with the president Umaro Sissoco Embaló speaking out on the issue. He told reporters that calm has returned to the country after Tuesday’s incident assuring that the situation was now under control. Gunfire was heard near a ministerial building in Guinea-Bissau where President Umaro Sissoco Embaló and… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

US offers $5m reward for former army chief of Guinea-Bissau

– – The United States government has offered a $5m reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of former Guinea-Bissau military chief Antonio Indjai. Mr Indjai led a coup in the West African country in 2012 before he was dismissed two years later in a democratic transition. The US authorities indicted him in 2013 on accusations of plotting… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

Guinea Bissau’s President fails to make it to run-off poll

Guinea Bissau’s incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz has failed to advance to the second round of voting in presidential election, finishing in a distant fourth. Results announced on Wednesday rather put two former Guinea-Bissau prime ministers in the lead. They would contest the presidential run-off vote. The electoral commission said Domingos Simoes Pereira finished first with 40% and Umaro Cissoko… Read More
Africa Featured West Africa World 

Guinea Bissau holds presidential poll after political chaos

Voters in Guinea Bissau are choosing a new president in Sunday’s presidential election after weeks of political chaos. More than 760,000 voters have registered to take part in the poll that opened at 07:00 GMT and will close at 17:00 GMT. There were violent protests ahead of Sunday’s elections after the incumbent president Jose Mario Vaz sacked his entire government… Read More
Africa West Africa World 

Guinea Bissau: ECOWAS forces newly appointed PM to resign

The West African regional bloc ECOWAS has forced Guinea-Bissau’s newly appointed Prime Minister Faustino Fudut Imbali to resign. ECOWAS had given Guinea-Bissau an ultimatum to reverse the sacking of the country’s previous prime minister, Aristides Gomes. President Jose Mario Vaz named Imbali prime minister last week after sacking his entire cabinet but the sacked prime minister Aristides Gomes refused to… Read More