Guinea Bissau Army General Horta N'Tam (C) poses with other military leaders after being sworn in as the transition leader and the leader of the High Command in Bissau on November 27, 2025. [AFP] ...

Military officers said they seized “total control” in Guinea-Bissau after arresting the president, following a contentious election. Gunfire erupted near the presidential palace in the capital of ...

The opposition alleges that the ousted president staged his own coup to avoid defeat in the last election. Meanwhile, the country's political institutions have been left in limbo as the country gears ...

Military officials in the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau have announced a new leader one day after seizing power in a military coup. General Horta Inta-A was named as the head of a ...

UN Secretary-General António Guterres condemned on Friday the military coup in Guinea-Bissau that took place just days after national elections, saying that it gravely violates constitutional order ...

After a two-year lull, during which optimists could have imagined the contagion had stopped, Africa appears to have experienced two coups in as many months. On November 26th army officers in ...

Guinea-Bissau is in an all-too-familiar state of flux in the wake of an apparent coup d’état that unfolded just as results from the November election were due to be announced – with both the incumbent ...

Guinea-Bissau is one of the world's poorest countries, with half its population considered poor, according to the World Bank. It has emerged as a hub for drug trafficking between Latin America and ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Counting of votes is underway in Guinea-Bissau where voting for presidential and legislative seats took place on Sunday for President Umaro Sissoco Embaló who is seeking a ...

Read full article: Man injured after being shot in Orange County; suspect in custody, deputies say The elections have come at a critical time in West Africa, where democracy has recently been ...