Guinea Bissau

Bissau interim President Cipriano Cassama stepped down on security concerns, two days after he was sworn into the post. “An interim president needs to have all the security conditions to fulfil his duties,” Cassama told reporters in the…

Umaro Sissoco Embalo swore himself in as the new president of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, defying a bitter ongoing row about the outcome of the December 29 elections. “I swear on my honour to defend the constitution, to respect it and…

Guinea-Bissau’s national electoral commission confirmed former Prime Minister Umaro Cissoko Embalo as the winner of the presidential ballot on Wednesday after the Supreme Court threw the result into doubt last week. On Friday the court…

President Muhammadu Buhari, on Sunday, received the President-elect of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Muhktar Sissoco Embalo, who came to Nigeria on a “thank you visit” and to express his "good wishes." Embalo emerged winner of the recently…

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari in his capacity as Chairman of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State, President Muhammadu Buhari, has directed the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to undertake an urgent mission as his…

FORMER Vice President Atiku Abubakar has condemned the President Muhammadu Buhari administration for donating the sum of half a million US dollars to Guinea Bissau at a time the administration had borrowed N13 trillion in its three and half…

ACTING President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo and the Guinea Bissau President, Mr Umaro Embalo, held discussion in Kaduna, on Thursday, with both leaders promising to strengthen security, economic and political ties betwen the two countries.…

Guinea-Bissau is facing a “catastrophic” economic situation, with a gaping budget deficit, after the International Monetary Fund suspended its support over two private bank bailouts, the finance minister said on Thursday. The IMF,…