Two of Guinea's main political parties, including that of former president Alpha Conde, have been suspended for three months, the military junta announced on Friday.

Guinea's prime minister said Wednesday the country's ruling junta would oversee a referendum as well as presidential and legislative polls before year's end to deliver a return to civilian government ...

Guinea Bissau Threatens to Expel ECOWAS Mission After Putin Meeting | Firstpost Africa | N18G Guinea Bissau is the latest West African nation to have locked horns with ECOWAS. In the latest, Guinea ...

Umaro Sissoco Embaló's five-year term as president officially expired on February 28, 2025. Technically, he is no longer Guinea-Bissau's leader, but he has not stepped down. Domingos Simões Pereira, ...

Djiba Diakité, chief of staff for Guinea’s interim president Mamady Doumbouya — a military general who came to power in a 2021 coup — said the country aims to offer “our young people the ...

Guinea-Bissau reschedules elections to November 23, intensifying disputes over President Embalo’s expired mandate. Opposition ...

A prominent civil society leader in Guinea, Abdoul Sacko, went missing in the early hours of February 19, 2025, after gunmen took him from his home in the capital Conakry, raising concerns about an ...

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 ...

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 ...

A Guinean court jailed former prime minister Ibrahima Kassory Fofana for five years Thursday for embezzlement of public funds, illicit enrichment and corruption. Fofana, who has been in prison ...

BISSAU, March 4 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco ... Embalo has been at odds with the political opposition in the coup-prone West African nation over when his current five ...