BISSAU, March 4 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Monday he would run for a second term in November, backtracking on earlier vows to step down and potentially ...

BISSAU, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's opposition has vowed to bring the West African country to a standstill on Thursday in a dispute over when the five-year mandate of President Umaro ...

Embalo, a former brigadier general, served as Guinea-Bissau's prime minister between 2016 and 2018. Originally a member of the PAIGC, he joined the MADEM G15 group, a breakaway faction. Calls for ...

In liaison with the African Union, France invited the Foreign Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Mr Fernando Delfim da Silva, to the Élysée Summit for Peace and Security in Africa, held in Paris on 6 and 7 ...

Guinea-Bissau faces one of the highest maternal and child mortality rates globally. The health sector is challenged by a shortage of qualified professionals, medications, and equipment, rendering ...

Guinea-Bissau is underexplored from the viewpoint of geology, Alexander Kozlov said, adding that phosphates and bauxites fields could be discovered in the African country MOSCOW, February 26.

MOSCOW - President Vladimir Putin hosted Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo for talks in the Kremlin on Wednesday, the latest sign of a drive by Moscow to build up economic and security ...

UN chief Antonio Guterres on Tuesday called for an immediate end to the fighting in the small coup-prone West African state of Guinea-Bissau. "The Secretary-General is deeply concerned with the ...