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Five heads of state from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) are expected Monday in Guinea Bissau to hold talks with leaders of the junta and civilian authorities in a bid to help resolve the crisis, in the wake of the April 12th coup.
Elections in Guinea Bissau would now take place in two years, the new military junta which overthrew the interim government last week has announced.
Growing restrictions on protesters, the media and freedom of movement are fuelling fear and insecurity in the wake of the military coup in Guinea Bissau, Amnesty International said.
The African Union Peace and Security Council suspended on Tuesday, with immediate effect, Guinea Bissau from all its activities until "constitutional order" is restored in that West African country prone to coups since its independence in 1974.
Jose Ramos Ortes, the head of state of East Timor, a Portuguese-speaking country in south-east Asia, has offered to mediate in Guinea Bissau, which has been stuck in a political stalemate following the April 12 military coup, APA can reveal from RTP.
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Minister of State Cornelia Pieper issued the following statement in Berlin:
As the eight-member Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP) is holding on Saturday an extraordinary meeting in Lisbon to discuss the events in Guinea Bissau, Mozambique, one of the five Portuguese-speaking countries in Africa, strongly condemned...
Guinean President Alpha Conde’s ongoing mediation in Guinea Bissau’s post-election crisis is at an advanced stage, according to the senior minister and secretary general of the Guinean presidency.
The head of the ECOWAS Observation Mission to the Guinea Bissau elections, and former Interim President of Niger, General Salou Djibo, met with other members of the mission on Friday in Bissau to brief them on the activities relating to the presidential...