Guinea-Bissau News
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Guinea-Bissau's junta, parliament and a group of political parties have signed a roadmap aimed at ending the crisis created by the April 12 coup, officials told AFP Saturday. The five-page document was signed by interim parliament speaker Braima Sori Djalo, the junta's top leader and 25 parties, including the Social Renovation Party, which was the main opposition party before the
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The UN Security Council unanimously ordered sanctions Friday against the leaders of last month's military coup in Guinea-Bissau. The 15-nation council ordered a travel ban against five top military officers in the West African nation, led by chief of staff General Antonio Indjai. The European Union has also ordered sanctions over the April 12 coup and Guinea-Bissau has been suspended
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Bissau - Around 70 soldiers of a west African force arrived in Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, part of regional efforts to restore stability after a 12 April coup, an AFP correspondent reported. The soldiers from Burkina Faso were welcomed by officers from Guinea Bissau's police and army as well as representatives of the United Nations and the Economic Community of West
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Bissau - West African mediators entered crisis talks with Guinea-Bissau's former governing party Thursday to mediate a return to civil rule after a military junta deposed the government last month. Mediators of the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), led by Nigerian Foreign Minister Olugbenga Ashiru, were to meet with junta leaders after their talks with the long-dominant African
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West Africa's regional group warned on Monday that civil war could erupt in Guinea Bissau if the international community forces the junta to hand back power to the government it deposed last month. But the ousted government and Portuguese-speaking nations again demanded that the UN Security Council back a multi-national intervention force. The government deposed on 12 April criticised a
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed deep concern that despite the international community's calls for the restoration of civilian rule in Guinea-Bissau, the military junta there remains in power while the country's security and socio-economic situation deteriorates. "The collective hope of the international community is to see the country's swift return to constitutional normalcy and the continuation of critical reform programmes," Mr.
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The junta in Guinea-Bissau said Tuesday the return of ousted president Raimundo Pereira was the only sticking point in talks with the Economic Community of West African States. "We agreed on all points with ECOWAS except one: the issue of Raimundo Pereira's return," Lieutenant-Colonel Daba na Walna, a junta spokesman, said at a press conference in Bissau. The 15-state regional
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Banjul - The West African bloc Ecowas said on Monday it had no other option but to impose sanctions on Guinea-Bissau's junta after talks in Banjul failed to yield any progress. The Economic Community of West African States said in a statement that the head of the junta that took power on 12 April "is not willing to negotiate and
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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, a day after regional bloc ECOWAS decided to send hundreds
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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, a day after regional bloc Ecowas decided to
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The troops who seized power this month in the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau said Friday they agreed to a 12-month transition period mooted by the west African regional bloc ECOWAS. The junta, which initially proposed a two-year transition, has also agreed to free detained leaders, their spokesman Daba Na Walna said. A team of the country's former rulers
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The junta in Guinea Bissau on Saturday said its plan for a two-year transition had only been a suggestion, in an apparent climbdown following threats of UN and regional sanctions. Hours afterwards the opposition politician picked as transitional president by the junta told AFP he was turning down what he described as an "illegal" appointment. "It was only a proposal,
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Guinea-Bissau's military leaders said Thursday they had agreed on a candidate to lead a transitional government, though the proposed two-year timeframe for organizing new elections after last week's coup was unlikely to appease the international community. Manuel Serifo Nhamajo, who has served as vice president of the National Assembly, was chosen by junta authorities and the opposition parties who took
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Bissau - Guinea-Bissau's junta and opposition parties on Wednesday formally dissolved the government and called for a two-year transition period before new elections can be held. The deal, presented to journalists, defied a chorus of calls from the international community, which has demanded the immediate restoration of the government ousted in a 12 April army coup that aborted an ongoing
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Guinea-Bissau's former ruling party on Wednesday rejected the junta's plans for a transition post-coup government and sought the release of top political leaders held by the military rulers. Several opposition parties held talks all day Wednesday and were due to announce the signing of an agreement for a way out of the political crisis since soldiers seized power on April
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Guinea-Bissau's new ruling junta banned marches Tuesday and warned it would crack down on demonstrators as the African Union suspended the country over last week's military coup. The junta's threat of "severe repression" against any demonstration or march came amid growing international pressure on the leaders of the April 12 coup, after the AU levelled a threat of sanctions against
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today voiced grave concern over the fact that, despite calls by the international community for the immediate restoration of constitutional order in Guinea-Bissau, the leaders of last week's coup have continued to deepen the political crisis through their declared plans to establish a transitional government. "This is particularly disturbing as it comes at a time when the
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Bissau - Five candidates who took part in Guinea-Bissau's aborted presidential election, including top opposition leader Kumba Yala, on Monday condemned last week's military coup. "We firmly condemn the April 12 military uprising and demand the quick return of constitutional order," said ex-president Yala, who came second in first-round presidential voting on March 18 behind then-prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior,
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Guinea-Bissau's new junta has accepted an offer from East Timor's outgoing President Jose Ramos-Horta to act as a mediator following a coup, an advisor said on Monday. Ramos-Horta offered to mediate two days ago, "and the junta replied and accepted this morning," Jose Meirelles, the president's senior advisor, told AFP. "All that remains to be settled is the date he
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The Guinea-Bissau army and opposition parties have agreed to set up a transitional body to run the country, ahead of talks Monday with West African bloc ECOWAS, which has denounced the recent coup. The news came before shortly before the new junta said Sunday it was closing all air and sea borders. That move was prompted by former colonial power
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The army and opposition parties in Guinea-Bissau agreed Sunday to set up a transitional body to run the country, a day ahead of talks with West African bloc ECOWAS, which has denounced the coup. All existing institutions will be dissolved to make way for a National Transitional Council, Fernando Vaz, a spokesman for the opposition parties, said Sunday. The size
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Bissau - East Timor's president has offered to mediate a crisis in Guinea-Bissau after soldiers arrested the prime minister of the tiny West African nation, and Portugal's defence minister said forces under his command were prepared to evacuate Portuguese citizens. "The situation in Guinea-Bissau, which I have followed over the years, is extraordinarily complex, dangerous, because it can degrade into
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There are reports of the military taking control of the capital and the state radio station of the coup-prone Guinea-Bissau on Thursday 12 April 2012 and the African Elections Project analysts are of the opinion this event will destabilise the electoral calendar for the Presidential run-off. According to the Associated Press, shooting started after the state radio station signal inexplicably
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Leaders of Guinea-Bissau's military coup set out their terms for a "unity government" Friday, a day after seizing control of the capital and capturing both the prime minister and interim president. And in a statement released late Friday they said that army chief-of-staff General Antonio Indjai had also been deposed. Army chiefs had earlier met leaders of the political parties,
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Bissau - An unidentified military commander said on Friday that soldiers who attacked the prime minister's home don't want to take power in Guinea-Bissau, claiming they intervened to halt foreign aggression in the tiny coup-prone African nation. The statement came hours after the state radio station's transmission was cut and explosions were heard throughout the capital. A group representing West
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