Vol 61 No 5 | GUINEA BISSAU They're back 5th March 2020 The surprise victory of Úmaro Sissoco Embaló in the second round of the presidential election has failed to end the country's political turbulence. The losing candidate, Domingos S...
Vol 60 No 24 | GUINEA BISSAU Revenge of the rejects 5th December 2019 One of two prime ministers fired by President José Mário Vaz will replace him as Guinea Bissau's president in a run-off on 29 December.
Vol 60 No 23 | GUINEA BISSAU Latest Vaz plot fails 21st November 2019 President José Mário Vaz's latest attempt to dismiss a government, four weeks before the presidential elections, now due on 24 November, collapsed in ignominy after the Economic Co...
Vol 60 No 15 | GUINEA BISSAU Vaz clings on 26th July 2019 Hopes that the 10 March elections would usher in a new era of reconciliation and dislodge President José Mário Vaz's limpet-like grip on power have again proved vain as the politic...
Vol 60 No 6 | GUINEA BISSAU Reformers take power 22nd March 2019 The Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC) of Domingo Simões Perreira won the 10 March parliamentary elections but fell short of the absolute majority ...
Vol 59 No 23 | GUINEA BISSAU Vaz kicks it into touch 23rd November 2018 Hopes that parliamentary elections on 18 November would end more than three years of political paralysis caused by the conflict between President José Mário Vaz and t...
Vol 59 No 10 | GUINEA BISSAU Vaz gives in 18th May 2018 After two-and-a-half years of conflict between President José Mário Vaz and the majority of his Partido Africano para a Independência da Guiné e Cabo Verde (PAIGC), led by Domingos...
Vol 59 No 7 | GUINEA BISSAU Vaz defies sanctions 6th April 2018 As Ecowas tries to intervene, the standoff between the President and the reformist wing of his own party drags on President José Mário Vaz's conflict with members of his own party and with West African and other international bodies is no nearer resolution, despite fresh attempts to pressure h...
Vol 58 No 24 | GUINEA BISSAU Street meets state 1st December 2017 The faction of the ruling party opposed to President José Mário Vaz has joined forces with the opposition to organise mass demonstrations against him.
Vol 58 No 9 | GUINEA BISSAU Vaz clings to power 28th April 2017 The President is ignoring the constitutional requirement to call elections and Parliament is deadlocked Three years after general elections that were widely hailed as free and fair and which ended two years of post-coup transitional government, and two years after a promising donor r...