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What do two recent incidents reveal about Guinea-Bissau’s cocaine politics?
Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime
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August 29, 2025
Guinea-Bissau has long been a central cog in the international cocaine trafficking system. Between 2005 and 2007, consignments of cocaine that had washed up on the country’s beaches was used to paint buildings by bemused fishermen who had chanced...
Guinea-Bissau cracks down on foreign media as elections near
Deutsche Welle
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August 29, 2025
When Portuguese public broadcasters RTP and RDP, and the news agency Lusa, were suddenly blocked in Guinea-Bissau on August 15, one of the first to feel the effects was Indira Correia Balde. "It started when our colleague Fatima Tchuma Camara, a...
Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) Supports Cabo Verde And Guinea-Bissau In Domestication And Implementation Of Community Fiscal Directives
MENAFN
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August 29, 2025
(MENAFN- African Press Organization) ABUJA, Nigeria, August 29, 2025/APO Group/ -- The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), through its Directorate of Customs Union and Taxation, conducted consultative missions to Cabo Verde and...
ECOWAS Advances Fiscal Integration in Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau
News Ghana
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August 28, 2025
The Economic Community of West African States has completed assessment missions to Cabo Verde and Guinea-Bissau, evaluating progress on regional tax harmonization efforts that could reshape fiscal policies across the 12-member bloc. ECOWAS...
Chinese ambassador awards scholarship to students in Guinea-Bissau
Xinhua News Agency
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BISSAU, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau Yang Renhuo on Thursday awarded the "Ambassador Scholarship" to students at the Tchico Te Higher Normal School in the West African country. The ceremony was also attended by the...
Nigeria News43 minutes ago Guinea-Bissau’s Prime Minister Collapses, Hospitalised The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Braima Camara, was on Tuesday rushed to hospital in neighbouring Senegal after collapsing during an official ceremony. Naija News…
Naija News
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August 27, 2025
Naija News reports that Camara, 57, who was appointed prime minister in early August, slumped while President Umaro Sissoco Embalo was delivering a speech at the presidential palace. According to eyewitnesses who spoke with AFP on the incident,...
Guinea-bissau Shuts Down 2 Portuguese Media Outlets, Expels Their Journalists
The Nigerian Voice
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By Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 19, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on authorities in Guinea-Bissau to rescind an August 15 order effectively suspending the work of the Portuguese state-owned news outlets LUSA...
Guinea-Bissau: RSF condemns the suspension of three Portuguese public media outlets and the expulsion of their correspondents
Reporters Without Borders
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In 2024, RDP and RTP Africa were arbitrarily suspended from May to August in Guinea-Bissau by the Ministry of Communication. On 29 July, 2024, RTP Africa’s correspondent in Guinea-Bissau, journalist Waldir Araujo, was beaten by a group of...
Portugal slams expulsion of reporters from Guinea-Bissau before election
Times LIVE
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Portugal's government on Friday condemned the expulsion of reporting teams of state news agency Lusa and two African units of broadcaster RTP from Guinea-Bissau in the run-up to a postponed election scheduled to be held in November in the West...
India Still Most Populous In World But Baby Boom Shows Signs Of Slowing
India West
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August 29, 2025
The Third World Penis is Mightier than the Sword “We have been God-like in our planned breeding of our domesticated plants and animals, but we have been rabbit-like in our unplanned breeding of ourselves.” –Arnold Joseph Toynbee Throughout...
ECOWAS Commission President – Dr. Omar Alieu Touray holds talks with UN’s Deputy Secretary-General
Sierra Leone Telegraph
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August 29, 2025
Sierra Leone Telegraph: 29 August 2025: On Monday, 25th August 2025, the President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, received the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina J. Mohammed at the ECOWAS Commission headquarters in...
Guinea-Bissau expels Portuguese media amid political turmoil, strained colonial ties
Business Insider Africa
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August 16, 2025
In a government decree issued on Friday, the administration of President Umaro Sissoco Embaló suspended the reporting activities of Portuguese state news agency Lusa and public broadcaster RTP Africa, including its radio arm, RDP Africa. Reuters...
Guinea-Bissau expels Portuguese media outlets
Modern Ghana
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The government of Guinea-Bissau said it was expelling two major Portuguese news agencies from the country Friday in a move swiftly condemned by Lisbon. The Portuguese-speaking west African nation gave no further explanation for the move, which it...
Zener Raises CFA13.5 Billion CFA With Ecobank to Expand in Guinea-Bissau
Togo First
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(Togo First) - • Zener International Holding (ZIH) secured CFA13.5 billion with Ecobank’s support to expand in Guinea-Bissau. • The funding will finance the takeover of Petrogal Guinea-Bissau assets, including petrol stations, fuel depots, and...
Guinea-Bissau PM vows to deepen cooperation with China
Xinhua News Agency
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BISSAU, Aug. 13 (Xinhua) -- Guinea-Bissau's newly appointed Prime Minister Braima Camara has voiced hope to maintain close communication and cooperation with China, and to deepen mutually beneficial ties across various fields. Camara made the...
Portugal protests expulsion of reporters from Guinea-Bissau beforeelection
Zambian Observer
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August 17, 2025
Portugal's government on Friday condemned the expulsion of reporting teams of state news agency Lusa and two African units of broadcaster RTP from Guinea-Bissau in the run-up to a postponed election scheduled to be held in November in the West...
Portugal summons Guinea-Bissau envoy after journalists expelled ahead of tense election
Africanews
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August 16, 2025
Lisbon is pushing back after Guinea-Bissau abruptly expelled reporting teams from Portugal’s state news agency Lusa and two African units of public broadcaster RTP. The move comes amid rising political tensions in Guinea-Bissau ahead of its...
Guinea-Bissau President to run as Independent
News Central TV
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August 8, 2025
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo announced on Friday that he will run as an independent candidate in the country’s upcoming presidential elections in November. The declaration, made during the inauguration of his new prime minister,...
PS condemns the expulsion of Lusa, RDP, and RTP by Guinea-Bissau.
Portugal Pulse
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August 15, 2025
The Portuguese Socialist Party (PS) stated that the actions of the Guinea-Bissau authorities were “unacceptably high-handed” and warranted an “institutional response.” The party acknowledged with satisfaction the measures taken by the Minister of...
Portugal protests expulsion of reporters from Guinea-Bissau before election
WKZO - Michigan
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August 15, 2025
LISBON (Reuters) -Portugal’s government on Friday condemned the expulsion of reporting teams of state news agency Lusa and two African units of broadcaster RTP from Guinea-Bissau in the run-up to a postponed election scheduled to be held in...