Guinea-Bissau

The Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries, with the Brazilian Cooperation Agency, supports the introduction of the "Capoeira Project" at the National School of Physical Education and Sport of Guinea-Bissau to enable practice and spread the discipline

The Democratic Parties Conciliation Space (ECPD), which brings together the opposition parties, called on ECOWAS to respect the sovereignty and constitution of the country's republic with regard to an international military mission

The ECOWAS stabilisation force in the country will initially consist of 631 soldiers and is expected to arrive in Bissau "within a few days"

The IMF's third and final assessment is underway: the benchmark program launched in July 2021 with the government, should lead the country to the Extended Credit Facility, essential to secure a loan

A group of women from the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) has asked the United Nations in Bissau to intervene to facilitate the realisation of the party's 10th congress

The Organising Committee of the VIth Ordinary Congress of the National Union of Teachers will hold the magnum meeting of teachers today after a postponement due to the state of alert

Guinea-Bissau's former prime minister, Domingos Simoes Pereira, has been banned from leaving the country because of an investigation into an alleged coup attempt last year

In the capital, unidentified armed men raided the premises of a private radio station, Capital FM, which is critical of the authorities, and beat up the station's managers; the episode comes in a climate of growing tension

President Sissaco Embalo claimed that Tuesday's failed coup, or at least the attack on institutions and their members, was linked to actions against drug traffickers, ruling out the presence of the military, and that several people are under investigation

People from the Cacheu region, represented by the head of the Movimento Região de Cacheu Seguro Djedo Pati Mendes, asked the Minister of State and Interior, Botche Candé, for security to combat cattle theft and armed robberies, frequently recorded lately

Eusébio Mango Fernandes won the award for football entrepreneur of the year in the country, at the eighth edition of the "Blue Fashion" Gala, held for the first time in Bissau