Guinea-Bissau Military Chief Accused By The U.S. In A Colombia Dug And Weapons Plot

Guinea-Bissau armed forces chief-of-staff General Antonio Indjai (C) leaves a meeting with the president and the regional body of the Econom...

Africa's Cocaine Hub

Der Spiegel Africa's Cocaine Hub: Guinea-Bissau a 'Drug Trafficker's Dream' -- Spiegel Online Guinea-Bissau has become a maj...

Did The Cocaine Barons Oust Guinea-Bissau's President Earlier This Year

Leader Ousted, Nation Is Now a Drug Haven -- New York Times BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — When the army ousted the president here just months befo...

ECOWAS Warns The Military Juntas In Mali And Guinea Bissau

ECOWAS Warn Mali, Bissau Juntas, Prepares Troops -- Reuters (Reuters) - West African leaders warned military juntas in Mali and Guinea Bissa...

African Union Suspends Guinea-Bissau

Guinea-Bissau Suspended From African Union -- CNN (CNN) -- Guinea-Bissau has been suspended from the African Union in the wake of last week...

Political Parties In Guinea-Bissau Reject Military's Plan For An Interim Government

Parties In Guinea-Bissau Reject Military's Plan for Interim Gov’t -- Voice Of America A group of political parties in Guinea-Bissau have...

Guinea-Bissau's Coup Has A Drug Connection

Did Effort To Stop Drug Payoffs To Military Trigger Guinea-Bissau Coup? -- McClatchy News BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau — One day after the military...

Coup Successful In Guinea Bissau -- News Updates April 13, 2012

Military Topples Guinea-Bissau Government -- Wall Street Journal DAKAR, Senegal—The armed forces of Guinea-Bissau, widely accused of traffic...

Military Coup In Guinea Bissau -- A News Roundup

Tiny Guinea-Bassau Becomes Latest West African Nation Hit By Coup -- McClatchy News Military in control of central district of capital, AP r...

Coup Attempt Fails In Guinea Bissau

Guinea-Bissau Coup Attempt: Navy Chief Arrested -- BBC Guinea-Bissau's navy chief has been arrested after an attempted coup on Monday, t...

Guinea-Bissau's Appointed Navy Chief Is A Suspected Drug Lord

US Concern Over G Bissau's 'Drugs Kingpin' Appointment -- BBC The US has voiced its deep disappointment at Guinea-Bissau's d...

Another Example That Illustrates What Is Wrong In Africa

US Names Two Guinea-Bissau Military Men 'Drug Kingpins' -- BBC The US has accused two senior military men from Guinea-Bissau of drug...

Coup D'Eat Attempt Underway In Guinea-Bissau

Military Briefly Detains, Threatens Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister -- Voice of America Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau briefly detained the country...

More Trouble In West Africa's Narco State

From Time Magazine: Some were actually hoping the wretched west African nation of Guinea-Bissau might have a fresh start this summer. In Mar...

The Exploding Drug Trade (And Violence) In West Africa

Ousmane Conte, son of Guinea Conakry's late president Lasante Conte, sits in detention at the gendarmerie headquaters in Conakry, Guinea...

Guinea-Bissau News Updates -- March 5, 2009

Raimundo Pereira, Guinea-Bissau's former parliament speaker who is now the interim president, is required to call elections within two m...

Guinea-Bissau News Updates -- March 3, 2009

Gone: Renegade soldiers gunned down Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernando Vieira on Monday. Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters Guinea-Bissau ...

Renegade Soldiers Kill Guinea-Bissau President

Photo : President Joao Bernardo Vieira was trying to escape when he was "taken down by bullets," an military spokesman said. Photo...

Guinea-Bissau's Army HQ Destroyed In Attack

Attackers Blow Up Part Of Bissau Armed Forces HQ -- Reuters BISSAU (Reuters) - Attackers armed with rocket-propelled grenades attacked the h...

Outrage Over Guinea-Bissau Attack As Army Hunts 'Mutineers'

From AFP: BISSAU (AFP) — Security forces in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau were on Monday hunting the mastermind of an attack by soldiers on the r...