A veteran of the war of independence, Vieira’s shadow looms large over Guinea Bissau’s history: he staged the country’s first coup in 1980, provoked the 1997-98 civil war and died as he had ...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Military leaders in Guinea-Bissau pledged to restore order and democracy in the tiny West African nation Monday after the assassination of President Joao Bernardo ...

Guinea-Bissau’s political instability, on the other hand, has generally (with the exception of the civil war of 1998-1999) been confined to the country’s elite and there is therefore little ...

In the international press the small West African country of Guinea Bissau is variously described as most, if not all of the following: a narco-state (with as many as 30 tons of drugs passing ...

Guinea-Bissau shocked China in 1990, ... rehabilitate the presidential palace that was damaged during the 1998 civil war, and construct a six-story central government building, the largest project in ...

In the past two decades alone, Guinea-Bissau has counted two successful coups, a civil war and a presidential assassination. Just one president has finished a term since the country gained ...

WHEN shots first rang out in Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, on June 7th, locals presumed it was a thunderstorm. Since 1980, when Joao Bernardo “Nino” Vieira came to power in a largely ...

More than 890,000 voters are called upon to elect a new parliament in Guinea-Bissau this ... and three military coups since 1994 — in addition to the yearlong civil war from 1998 to ...