Vol 63 No 4 | GUINEA BISSAU Who was behind the failed power grab? 17th February 2022 The President of Africa's pre-eminent narco-state says he was targeted by drug gangs, but his own record is patchy The President of Guinea Bissau's claims about a failed putsch against him leave many questions unanswered. Around lunchtime on 1 February a group of armed men clad in sweatshirts s...
Vol 63 No 2 | GUINEA BISSAUSENEGAL Oil-sharing deal fires up row 20th January 2022 When Senegal's former economy minister Amadou Hott visited Bissau last October, he sparked a furore by telling journalists about a secret deal to distribute revenues that might acc...
Vol 62 No 4 | GAMBIAGUINEA BISSAUSENEGAL Sall roots out rebels 18th February 2021 Senegal's media eagerly showed footage of soldiers walking through rebel camps which the Senegalese army overran in the first week of February. Deserted kitchens, mostly old weapon...
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...