Guinea-Bissau News
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Guinea-Bissau - A military tribunal in Guinea-Bissau has convicted an army captain of leading a failed coup last year. Pansau Ntchama was sentenced on Thursday to serve five years in prison after being found guilty of treason and using illegal weapons. Ntchama was the ex-bodyguard of Guinea-Bissau's former army chief of staff. Authorities say he led gunmen who attacked a
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Bissau - The UN Representative in Guinea-Bissau on Friday called for "calm and serenity" there after the US charged its former military chief with drug trafficking and seeking to sell arms to Colombian rebels. "The government and the armed forces must remain calm. It would be counter-productive to react," Jose Ramos Horta, a former president of East Timor, told journalists.
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The US has charged the coup leader of Guinea-Bissau with drug trafficking and seeking to sell arms to Colombian rebels. Antonio Indjai is now the eighth person accused in the conspiracy. The indictment charges Indjai with narco-terrorism conspiracy, conspiracy to support a foreign terrorist organization, conspiracy to import cocaine and conspiracy to transfer anti-aircraft missiles to Revolutionary Armed Forces of
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While other situations in West Africa continue to dominate popular news coverage, the deteriorating conditions in Guinea-Bissau have struggled to capture the headlines. The Guinean Human Rights League (GHRL) released a major report on its human rights situation today, which should act as a serious wake-up call for those who have taken the relative lack of concern as a sign
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Chronic instability, extreme poverty, drug trafficking and corruption are the tragic lot of Guinea-Bissau, which this year commemorates four decades of independence from Portugal. Since independence, declared in September 1973 and recognised by Lisbon a year later, this African country of 1.5 million people has known few periods of peace, and it is one of the world's poorest nations, with
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Bissau - At least 22 people died and 69 were missing after their overloaded boat sank on Friday off the capital of Guinea-Bissau, rescue workers said. A total of 97 people were aboard the boat en route from the Atlantic Ocean island of Boloma to Bissau, they told AFP. "Twenty-two bodies were recovered and six survivors were rescued," a rescue
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Bissau — As cholera case rates decline in Guinea and Sierra Leone, they are on the rise in Guinea-Bissau, with 1,500 cases reported and nine deaths as of 11 November, according to the Ministry of Health. Adelino Gomes, a doctor in charge of cholera treatment at the Simão Mendes national hospital in the capital Bissau, says he has treated 500
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Bissau - The suspected leader of a failed 21 October counter-coup attempt in Guinea-Bissau was arrested on Saturday, witnesses and a security official said. Captain Pansao Ntchama, a bodyguard to the then head of the army under ousted Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, and four other suspects were detained at a farm on an island near the West African country's
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Luanda - Some 350 Guinea-Bissau policemen, who have been stuck in Angola for months due to a diplomatic spat between the two Portuguese-speaking nations, on Monday urged the authorities to let them go home. The group has been in Angola since December 2011 for training under a bilateral deal to help reform the defence and security forces of their coup-prone
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The UN Security Council is considering calling a summit on Guinea-Bissau and expressed concern Monday that drug trafficking in the troubled West African state has grown since a junta seized control in April. International efforts to broker a return to constitutional rule in Guinea-Bissau have been blocked by military leaders, many of whom already face European Union and African sanctions.
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Bissau - Guinea-Bissau's ex-navy chief, an alleged druglord accused of leading a failed coup bid in December, is currently in Senegal's capital seeking medical treatment, his lawyer told AFP on Thursday. Vieira Co said Admiral Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto "has not fled the country as alleged by rumours in Bissau. He left the country normally and is in Dakar
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Angolan troops, whose presence in Guinea-Bissau angered local soldiers and prompted a coup in April, ended their pullout from the west African country on Saturday, a military official said. "The withdrawal operation ends today with the arrival in Angola of the last group of our soldiers from Guinea-Bissau," the official said. It "marks the end of the military cooperation agreements
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Bissau - Angola began withdrawing its troops and military equipment from Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday, officials said, ending a year-long mission in the West African country aimed at reforming the army but which instead helped trigger a coup. An Angolan ship, the Rio Mbridge, began loading up men and equipment at the port of Bissau, and airplanes were deployed to pick
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Bissau - Guinea-Bissau's interim prime minister returned to her home on Thursday after seeking refuge at local European Union premises following a coup d’état in April, she told AFP. Adiato Djalo Nandigna was appointed to the post when prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior resigned to allow him to run in a presidential election, which was aborted by the coup before
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Former Guinea-Bissau armed forces chief Jose Zamora Induta has fled his country for Senegal but has not been arrested there and is now heading for Gambia, a local offical said Saturday. Earlier, a security source in the Casamance region of Senegal which borders Guinea-Bissau said Induta, who left his country in the wake of last month's coup, had been arrested
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Guinea-Bissau's junta, parliament and a group of political parties have signed a roadmap aimed at ending the crisis created by the April 12 coup, officials told AFP Saturday. The five-page document was signed by interim parliament speaker Braima Sori Djalo, the junta's top leader and 25 parties, including the Social Renovation Party, which was the main opposition party before the
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The UN Security Council unanimously ordered sanctions Friday against the leaders of last month's military coup in Guinea-Bissau. The 15-nation council ordered a travel ban against five top military officers in the West African nation, led by chief of staff General Antonio Indjai. The European Union has also ordered sanctions over the April 12 coup and Guinea-Bissau has been suspended
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Bissau - Around 70 soldiers of a west African force arrived in Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, part of regional efforts to restore stability after a 12 April coup, an AFP correspondent reported. The soldiers from Burkina Faso were welcomed by officers from Guinea Bissau's police and army as well as representatives of the United Nations and the Economic Community of West
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Bissau - West African mediators entered crisis talks with Guinea-Bissau's former governing party Thursday to mediate a return to civil rule after a military junta deposed the government last month. Mediators of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), led by Nigerian Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru, were to meet with junta leaders after their talks with the long-dominant African
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West Africa's regional group warned on Monday that civil war could erupt in Guinea Bissau if the international community forces the junta to hand back power to the government it deposed last month. But the ousted government and Portuguese-speaking nations again demanded that the UN Security Council back a multi-national intervention force. The government deposed on 12 April criticised a
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern that despite the international community's calls for the restoration of civilian rule in Guinea-Bissau, the military junta there remains in power while the country's security and socio-economic situation deteriorates. "The collective hope of the international community is to see the country's swift return to constitutional normalcy and the continuation of critical reform programmes," Mr.
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The junta in Guinea-Bissau said Tuesday the return of ousted president Raimundo Pereira was the only sticking point in talks with the Economic Community of West African States. "We agreed on all points with ECOWAS except one: the issue of Raimundo Pereira's return," Lieutenant-Colonel Daba na Walna, a junta spokesman, said at a press conference in Bissau. The 15-state regional
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Banjul - The West African bloc Ecowas said on Monday it had no other option but to impose sanctions on Guinea-Bissau's junta after talks in Banjul failed to yield any progress. The Economic Community of West African States said in a statement that the head of the junta that took power on 12 April "is not willing to negotiate and
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Guinea-Bissau's coup leaders released the country's ousted prime minister and interim president on Friday after more than two weeks of captivity, allowing the former leaders to travel to Ivory Coast. The generals now in charge of the small, unstable west African country also pledged a one-year transition back to democracy, a day after regional bloc ECOWAS decided to send hundreds
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Bissau - Guinea-Bissau's coup leaders released the country's ousted prime minister and interim president on Friday after more than two weeks of captivity, allowing the former leaders to travel to Ivory Coast. The generals now in charge of the small, unstable west African country also pledged a one-year transition back to democracy, a day after regional bloc Ecowas decided to
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