Guinea-Bissau has witnessed at least nine coups or attempted coups over the last five decades. Guinea-Bissau's deposed ...

Bissau’s military installed Major-General Horta Inta-a as transitional president on Thursday, a day after soldiers toppled ...

Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau have announced a new junta leader, cementing a forceful takeover of power that began after a ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegalese President Macky Sall defended his decision to postpone elections as violent protests erupted across the country on Friday. In his first interview since announcing the ...

Bassirou Diomaye Faye, a former tax official held in prison on government charges a little over two weeks ago, has been sworn in as Senegal’s fifth and youngest ever president. Faye said his ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal’s little-known, 44-year-old opposition leader Bassirou Diomaye Faye was named the country's next president on Monday, less than two weeks after being released from prison ...

The fight for justice will never be erased from our collective memory. The bloodshed was that of Africa,' says Senegalese ...

Macky Sall, the president of Senegal since 2012, has had a closer view than anyone of the plague of coups in Africa since 2020 and the efforts to reverse them. Two of the first putsches were in Mali, ...

Guinea-Bissau’s military installed Major-General Horta Nta Na Man as transitional president on Thursday, an army statement ...

Guinea Bissau’s ousted president, Umaro Sissoco Embalo, has arrived safely in Senegal after an unexpected military takeover ...

The military toppled the civilian leadership on Wednesday in a swift power grab ahead of the announcement of the results of a ...