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Guinea-Bissau junta frees PM, president seized in coup
Bissau – Guinea-Bissau’s coup leaders released the country’s ousted prime minister and interim president on Friday after more than two weeks of captivity, allowing the former leaders to travel to Ivory Coast.
The generals now in charge of the small, unstable west African country also pledged a one-year transition back to democracy,...
Guinea-Bissau Candidate to Boycott Runoff
The second-place finisher in Guinea-Bissau’s presidential poll says he will not take part in a run-off vote, because he says the election process was fraudulent.
Opposition leader Kumba Yala made the statement to reporters Thursday.
Former prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior won last Sunday’s election with 49 percent of the vote, but electoral...
Guinea-Bissau poll heads to run-off amid fraud claims
Guinea-Bissau’s ex-prime minister Carlos Gomes dismissed claims of election fraud on Wednesday as results showed he will face a run-off presidential vote in the coup-prone west African country.
Gomes, 62, narrowly missed a first round victory, scoring 48.97 per cent in Sunday’s election seen as a key test of the nation’s commitment to stability...
In Pictures: Guinea-Bissau after Election
Residents go about their daly life on the streets in Guinea-Bissau. Guinea-Bissau tallied votes cast in a presidential poll as the assassination of an ex-military intelligence official highlighted the chronic instability plaguing the west African nation. As early results trickled in, concerns were rife the process could be derailed in the former Portuguese...
In Pictures: Colonel Samba Dialloon Buried
Guinea-Bissau’s opposition demanded Tuesday the cancellation of a presidential poll they charge was a sham, further stoking fears of trouble in the coup-prone state after a high-level assassination. Diallo was shot dead just hours after polling closed. Five leading Guinea-Bissau presidential candidates have called for the cancellation of an election...
Guinea Bissau rivals urge new election, alleging fraud
Guinea Bissau’s top opposition presidential candidates called on Tuesday for results from Sunday’s election to be thrown out before they are published because of “massive fraud”, including double-voting and errors on the voter roll.
The call complicates an election, held to find a successor to president Malam Bacai Sanha who...
Guinea Bissau’s ex-military intelligence chief killed: Reports
BISSAU—Guinea Bissau’s former head of military intelligence, Colonel Samba Diallo, was shot dead at a bar near his residence in the capital Bissau late on Sunday, hours after a presidential election, witnesses and a security source said.
Diallo was among the military officials deposed and temporarily jailed in an April 2010 coup within the military...
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