Guinea Bissau Archives - Page 3 of 3

Mar

2020

Guinea-Bissau, the investment hub and tourism destination of Africa – Pt I

Economy, Guinea Bissau, Opinion, PoliticsAfrica, Economy, Guinea Bissau, Politics

Guinea Bissau is one of the countries of West Africa formerly in the same union with Cape Verde before they separated to become two sovereign nations. And the population of Guinea Bissau is estimated to be between 1.6 to 2 million inhabitants. Background History Guinea Bissau is one of the Colonies of Portugal in West Africa who fought and gained their independence from Portuguese occupation. The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence was an armed independence conflict that took place in Portuguese Guinea between 1963 and 1974. Fought between Portugal and the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, an armed independence movement backed by Cuba and the Soviet…

Jan

2020

By OHAFIATV

Guinea-Bissau Supreme Court Rejects Challenge to Presidential Election Result

Guinea Bissau, PoliticsAfrica, Freedom, Guinea Bissau, Politics

BISSAU - Guinea-Bissau's Supreme Court on Sunday rejected a challenge against Umaro Cissoko Embalo's victory in last month's election run-off by the defeated candidate, who complained of fraud. The ruling confirms a surprise election win for Embalo, a 47-year-old former prime minister and ex-army general. He will replace outgoing Jose Mario Vaz, who was eliminated in the first round of voting in November after a five-year term marked by political dysfunction and corruption allegations. The court's ruling said runner-up Domingos Simoes Pereira, the candidate of the majority party in parliament, should have first filed his complaint with the national electoral commission,…

Nov

2019

By Amos Oge Kalu

BISSAU: The trend of media strangulation by American Press worrisome

Guinea Bissau, PoliticsAfrica, Politics, World News

By Comr Amos Kalu For the umpteenth time. America and her press should stop this media strangulation of Africa occasioned by bias and preconditioning of their minds based on unverified reports. It is very inconveniencing for few people to continue to psychologically blackmail Africans from thousand of miles away. Guinea Bissau What yardsticks did they use to predict the "Presumed" Prediction of the presidential outcome because have stayed here to observe over two weeks, the narratives is quite the contrary. The only thing I see here is attempt by ECOWAS to place other candidates at disadvantage in favour of a…

Nov

2019

By Amos Oge Kalu

Should ECOWAS be partisan in Guinea Bissau politics?

Guinea Bissau, PoliticsAfrica, Politics

By Comr Amos Kalu (AFK) The role ECOWAS is playing in the upcoming Guinea Bissau election is very worrisome, dangerous and unacceptable, especially at a time when the Republic believe they need opportunity to move from backwardness and stagnation in the hands of self-aggrandising political stooges who place the interest of their sponsor against the growth and development of their nation. It is clear that Guinea Bissau are people who has learn to say no to any bad government and has always done their best to unseat such government because they want to move on. But it is sad that…

Oct

2019

By Amos Oge Kalu

Guinea Bissau: Nuno Nabiam reacts to protester’s death in protests

Amos Oge Kalu, Guinea Bissau, PoliticsAfrica, Personality, Politics

Nuno Gomes Nabian, also a candidate for the presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau, reacted on Sunday (27.10) to the events of Saturday's protests in Bissau, which resulted in a dead and wounded. The leader of the United People's Assembly - Guinea-Bissau Democratic Party (APU-PDGB), which shares governance with the African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), accuses police authorities of "executing" a protester Saturday (26:10) following a suppressed manifestation by the forces of order. Nuno Gomes Nabian, who is also a presidential candidate supported by his party, reacted on Sunday to a press conference on Saturday's events in Bissau: "What…