The Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa (GIABA), is set to welcome about 40 journalists from across 15 ECOWAS member States to Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, for a regional ...

Military leaders have taken power in five African countries in the last 18 months, but Guinea-Bissau — a small coastal nation no stranger to coups — appears to have just staved one off. By Declan ...

One morning in early 2005, the villagers of Biombo found hundreds of carefully sealed packets of white powder washed up on their mangrove flats on Guinea-Bissau’s Atlantic coast. The women discovered ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A mission by a West African regional bloc sent to Guinea-Bissau to resolve a dispute over elections there has left the country, following threats by President Umaro Sissoco ...

FrontPageAfrica Editor Selma Lomax is among 40 journalists from across the ECOWAS region participating in a three-day regional training workshop on investigative reporting of economic and financial ...

Major General Dr. Ahmed Naser Al Raisi, President of International Criminal Police Organisation (INTERPOL), conferred upon ...

The Kremlin armed a generation of freedom fighters in Africa, like Joana Gomes, who helped Guinea-Bissau win liberation. So her decision to take Moscow’s side in its war with Ukraine was never in ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, March 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - E dimilson Silva wears tight jeans, sparkly jewelry and sometimes lipstick - outfits that in neighboring countries could get him harassed ...

On March 2 President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea Bissau was assassinated in his own home by soldiers loyal to army chief of staff, General Batista Tagme Na Waie. Na Waie died the day before in a ...

Andrew G. Szabo gets asked a lot of questions about his delegation at the 2013 Maccabiah games − “Where is that?” being the main one. It’s a fair enough question, really, for Guinea-Bissau − the ...

NEAR THE port of Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, one of Africa’s smallest states, is a neglected monument to past rebellion. A giant fist of black steel commemorates striking dockers gunned down ...

Gunfire raised fears Embalo was latest target of W. Africa coup Embalo's Twitter and Facebook pages suggest coup failed President struggled to shrug off doubts over election win OUAGADOUGOU, Feb 1 ...