Guinea bissau

Guinea-Bissau marked this year’s Augist 3 Pidjiguiti Day amidst political uncertainties, human rights concerns and financial challenges, highlighting the country’s tough march towards a stable political space. The day commemorates victims of the 1959 massacre that helped start the independence fight. On that day, colonial police fired on peaceful protesters at Bissau’s Pidjiguiti docks, leaving…

President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaru Sisocco Embaló.   The emerging political crisis in Guinea-Bissau, triggered by the president, Umaru Sissoco Embaló’s decision to remain in power after the expiration of his constitutional mandate, has provoked strong opposition both within and outside the country. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the United Nations Office for…