Bissau, the country’s two principal opposition parties have made a public appeal for dialogue with the military junta that seized power in a coup in late November 2025, seeking a way out of the ...

New military leaders claim they will liberate the West African country from the influence of drug traffickers. But can the junta realistically rid Guinea-Bissau of its 'narco-state' image?"Zero ...

Senegal's prime minister and Nigeria's former president have both said they do not believe the ousting of Guinea-Bissau's president by the country's military was a genuine coup. Former President Umaro ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau on Friday appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister, after seizing power following disputed national elections earlier ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — In West Africa’s latest military takeover, soldiers in Guinea-Bissau followed up a disputed presidential election by seizing power last week in what some critics allege was a ...

This article has been regularly updated. On the afternoon of Wednesday 26 November, a body styling itself the “High Military Command for the Restoration of National Security and Public Order” ...

The U.N.'s special envoy to Guinea Bissau, Miguel Trovoada, told the 15-member Security Council that the dismissed government had been a representative one that could have helped keep the country ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau who seized power following disputed national elections earlier this week appointed a close ally of the deposed president as prime minister on ...