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Global food crisis is one of Russia’s “weapons of war“, said French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to Cameroon on Tuesday (26 July), dismissing suggestions Western sanctions were to blame. It’s Macron’s first foreign trip since his re-election as he seeks to reset France’s post-colonial relationship with the continent. The French leader specifically denounced […]
French President Emmanuel Macron today (25 July) begins a three-nation tour of western African states in the first trip to Africa of his new term as he seeks to reboot his country’s post-colonial relationship with the continent. Macron’s 25-28 July tour, also the first venture outside Europe of his new mandate, will take the French […]
Liberia’s Foreign Minister, Dee-Maxwell Saah Kemayah, has reaffirmed his country’s strong support to the autonomy plan offered by Morocco for a lasting resolution of the Sahara issue, saying that the Moroccan proposition, which is backed by the UN, is the only feasible and realistic solution. Speaking to journalists following a meeting in Rabat with Moroccan […]
Guinea-Bissau’s President Umaro Sissoco Embalo escaped a coup attempt on Tuesday, the latest in a series of coups across West Africa. Mr. Embalo, a former general who arrived in 2020 at the head of this country with a political history marked by such events, appeared Tuesday evening before the press unharmed and serene, after having […]
The inauguration ceremony of this consulate was co-chaired by Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Abroad, Nasser Bourita, and his Bissau-Guinean counterpart Suzi Carla Barbosa. This is the 6th consular representation inaugurated in Dakhla in 2020, after the consulate general of The Gambia, opened on January 7, the consulate general of Guinea, which […]
Guinea-Bissau is planning to inaugurate a consulate in Moroccan Sahara, Le360.ma reports citing sources. The sources did not elaborate on the date but the move will bolster the international support for the kingdom’s sovereignty over the disputed territory and its political settlement plan submitted to the United Nations. Algeria has been backing the separatist movement […]
ECOWAS will gradually withdraw its intervention force in Guinea-Bissau. A first group has already left Bissau on August 27. It consists of 130 men mainly from the Togolese Special Forces who arrived in Guinea-Bissau in November 2019 to reinforce the sub-regional contingent stationed in Bissau since 2012. The other ECOWAS troops, notably Nigerians, Senegalese and […]
President Umaro Sissoco Embalo of Guinea Bissau is planning a revision of the constitution, at the root of the many crises that Guinea-Bissau has experienced since the last revision of this fundamental law in 1991. For the Head of State, it is a question of adapting the text to the challenges of the moment and […]
The 15-nation Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Monday urged Guinea-Bissau’s army to remain neutral in the country’s deepening political struggle. The ECOWAS said it “firmly condemned” the latest developments in the country, which it was “following with great concern”. Those developments include the “successive investiture of two heads of state […]
Former Prime Minister and ex-army general Umaro Cissoko Embalo has won last week presidential election in Guinea-Bissau, with 54% of the vote, the electoral commission said on Wednesday. Embalo, 47, who beat another former Prime Minister Domingos Simoes Pereira in a run-off vote, will succeed incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz. The new elected leader served […]