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Guinea Bissau

Guinea Bissau
Population: 1.6 mn.
GDP: 0.8 bn.
Debt: 0.8 bn.
Overview:

Concerns grow over seriously ill President Malam Bacai Sanhá although Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior will dominate government. Infrastructure investment will be the emphasis of a mainly foreign aid financed programme.

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  • Vol 51 No 9
  •  30th April 2010

A runaway army

Led by a ‘drug kingpin’, April’s coup may be part of a military struggle for control of international drug trafficking networks

  • Vol 50 No 5
  •  6th March 2009

Mutually assured destruction

The main threat to peace in Bissau is a coup d’état following the fatal bombing of the Army Chief of Staff, General Batista Tagme Na Waie, on 1 March and the retaliatory killing of President João Bernardo Vieira a few hours later. For now, the chances of ...

  • Vol 49 No 18
  •  5th September 2008

A cocaine coup fails

Things turned nasty in late July, when the Minister of Justice, Carmelita Pires, and the Public Prosecutor, Luis Manuel Cabral, received death threats. This was due to their persistent inquiries into the seizure of 500 kilogrammes of drugs and the arrest ...

  • Vol 48 No 18
  •  7th September 2007

Cocaine central

President Vieira's feeble regime is being almost overwhelmed by the drugs trade

  • Vol 48 No 13
  •  22nd June 2007

The cocaine web spreads

Latin America's druglords are doing multimillion dollar business with West Africa's military and their politician pals

  • Vol 46 No 16
  •  5th August 2005

On edge

Recounts in three regions are possible after losing candidate Malam Bacai Sanhá disputed provisional election results giving former military ruler João Bernardo 'Nino' Vieira victory in the 24 July presidential election run-off. Tension is r...

  • Vol 46 No 13
  •  24th June 2005

Yala the spoiler

In the second round of the presidential elections due on 17 or 24 July, Malam Bacai Sanha of the ruling Partido Africano da Independência de Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC), who won the first round of voting on 19 June with 158,000 votes, is set t...

  • Vol 44 No 19
  •  26th September 2003

Yala's unlamented end

Africa's most predicted coup finally happened on 14 September when Army Chief of Staff General Verissimo Correia Seabra stepped in to end President Kumba Yala's ill-starred three and a half years in office. Domestic reaction to the coup was near universal...

  • Vol 41 No 24
  •  8th December 2000

Death of a veteran

It seems that troops loyal to President Kumba Yala killed self-proclaimed Chief of Staff General Ansumane Mane in an ambush about 30 kilometres from the capital, Bissau, on 23 November.

  • Vol 40 No 3
  •  5th February 1999

Treaty testing

As regional diplomats struggled to negotiate a truce on 3 February, the French-backed peacekeeping initiative, Renforcement des Capacités Africaines en Maintien de la Paix (RECAMP), was at risk of failing its first big test. The French naval tran...

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