Guinea-Bissau

The Orange Bissau Telecommunications Company launched the Orange Digital Centre, a free platform to support young people in their digital entrepreneurship training

The city council of Maputo, Mozambique, handed over the keys of the city to the president of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, in a ceremony boycotted by the Mozambican opposition, which considers the Guinean head of state 'not a good example'

Amílcar Cabral University signed an agreement with the University of Tuskegee in Alabama, USA, in the fields of agriculture, health, education and infrastructure

The coach of the national football team, Luís Boa Morte, said his goal is to qualify the Guinea-Bissau team for the African Cup of Nations

The new emigrant statute grants emigrants exemption from customs duties and taxes to the extent of 20% on the value of imported products, stated the Secretary of State for Communities, Cipriano Mendes Pereira

The Guinean Human Rights League denounced the arrest of activists involved in the peaceful demonstration and some members of civil society organisations

The Minister of the Interior and Public Order has promised to ensure 100% security for citizens in the suburbs of Bissau and reduce the crime wave in these areas

Staff officers of the Economic Community of West African States Stabilisation Support Mission in Guinea-Bissau were decorated with a medal of the organisation's sub-regional peace support operation

The Guinean League for Human Rights has denounced rising waves of violence and human rights violations in the country over the past three months

Teacher training schools in Guinea-Bissau are closed again, this time for 10 working days, in a strike that could jeopardize the current academic year, as semester exams have so far not been held in some schools

After serving as Fulham's first-team coach since 2021, Luis Boa Morte will be the head coach of the Guinea-Bissau national team at the end of the current season

Siphiweka Baleka, a North American-Guinean athlete, denounced the existence of a "web" of corruption, discrimination and fraud in the swimming federation and at the level of the Guinea-Bissau Olympic Committee

The civil registration system in Guinea-Bissau is classified as an unsatisfactory system, according to the typology defined by the World Health Organisation, stated the Minister of Justice and Human Rights