Guinea Bissau's incumbent President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, in power since 2020, is seeking a second term, but chronic ...

Incumbent Umaro Sissoco Embalo faces surprisingly strong competition in Guinea-Bissau’s presidential election on Sunday, a ...

As the West African nation prepares to hold parliamentary and presidential polls, the disqualification of major opposition ...

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, a 53-year-old ex-army general, is seeking a second term in a November 23 vote, ...

BISSAU (Reuters) -Umaro Sissoco Embalo is aiming this month to become the first incumbent president to win re-election in ...

Analysis - Guinea-Bissau heads into its November elections against the backdrop of a deepening crisis of electoral legitimacy across Africa. In recent months, a string of elections has reinforced the ...

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Tension and hope are rising in Guinea-Bissau as voters prepare for one of the most contentious presidential elections since ...

The exclusion of the main opposition and rivalry between military factions could destabilise the 23 November elections.

One morning in early 2005, the villagers of Biombo found hundreds of carefully sealed packets of white powder washed up on their mangrove flats on Guinea-Bissau’s Atlantic coast. The women discovered ...

Military leaders have taken power in five African countries in the last 18 months, but Guinea-Bissau — a small coastal nation no stranger to coups — appears to have just staved one off. By Declan ...

NEAR THE port of Bissau, the capital of Guinea-Bissau, one of Africa’s smallest states, is a neglected monument to past rebellion. A giant fist of black steel commemorates striking dockers gunned down ...