2023-12-02 21:39:20 In Guinea-Bissau, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo denounced on Saturday “an attempted coup d’état” after violent clashes which shook the country’s capital on the night of Thursday to Friday. Published on : 02/12/2023 – 22:39 2 mn Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo denounced on Saturday December 2 an “attempted coup d’état” which will have … Read more
2023-09-22 12:06:28 François Bozizé, former president of the Central African Republic and leader in exile of the main rebel coalition, was sentenced Thursday in absentia to forced labor for life in Bangui, notably for “conspiracy” and “rebellion”. Published on : 22/09/2023 – 14:06 2 mn Now leader in exile of the main rebel coalition, former … Read more
2023-06-07 03:20:43 With our special correspondent in Bissau, Bineta Diagne International observers are unanimous on one point: the ballot was free, transparent and peaceful in their words. No major incident was noted. A few flaws have nevertheless been noted, such as the non-respect of parity: 52% of voters are women but they are poorly represented … Read more
2023-05-24 22:05:00 Published on : 25/05/2023 – 00:05 It’s a great leap in space and time. In NOME, filmmaker Sana Na N’Hada takes us to Guinea-Bissau in the 1960s, at the time of the war of independence. Its hero is a young man, young villager. Banished from his community for having impregnated a village girl, … Read more
2023-05-03 06:54:18 The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, warned this Tuesday that he will not set another date for the holding of the legislative elections scheduled for June 4. “On the 4th there will be elections and that they are orderly, transparent. I will not make any more decrees to set another date for … Read more
The President of Chad Mahamat Idriss Déby and the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, received at the Élysée on February 6 and 7 respectively, preceded by the President of Côte d’Ivoire, Alassane Ouattara, on January 25: at the start of the year 2023, Emmanuel Macron active on the diplomatic front vis-à-vis Africa. And that’s not … Read more
Published on : 03/12/2022 – 09:29Modified : 03/12/2022 – 09:32 Drug trafficking continues to grow in West Africa, where 14.2 tonnes of cocaine were seized each year on average between 2019 and 2022, compared to 5.5 tonnes for 2007 alone. A colossal source of corruption, the Latin American cartels have become ubiquitous. Knowing that it … Read more
Published on : 26/10/2022 – 20:56 As current president of ECOWAS, Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo expressed this Wednesday, October 26 in kyiv the will of Africa to pose as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine. The Bissau-Guinean president arrived in Ukraine on Tuesday October 25 and spent the night in kyiv. In the morning, … Read more