Africa Guinea-Bissau 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
Africa Guinea-Bissau 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
Africa Guinea-Bissau 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
Africa Guinea-Bissau 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
Africa Guinea-Bissau A shortage of a large number of teachers in public schools in Guinea-Bissau has been officially announced in a communiqué; this shortage has been caused by various reasons: study, health, dropout and other situations
Africa Guinea-Bissau The Minister of the Environment of Guinea-Bissau, Viriato Luis Soares Cassamá, presented the candidature of a group of islands in the Bijagós archipelago to become a World Heritage Site at the Unesco headquarters in Paris
Africa Guinea-Bissau The Guinean civil society organisation expressed its concern to the Minister of the Interior and Public Order, Botche Cande, about the existence of traces of a large number of drugs in Guinea-Bissau
Africa Guinea-Bissau The National Union of Teachers and Employees of Schools of Higher Education has asked the government to carry out inspections in all the units that make up the School of Higher Education in Guinea-Bissau
Africa Guinea-Bissau The Guinean League for Human Rights considers the government's presidential decision to suspend freedom of meetings and demonstrations to be 'yet another constitutional drift'
Africa Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló, arguing that government stability is "the only key to development", stated that without political stability, all infrastructure built and under construction will only be used to take photographs
Africa Guinea-Bissau The coach of Guinea-Bissau's national football team, Baciro Candé, said that his greatest 'ambition' as coach of the Djurtus is to win the African Cup of Nations, to be played in Côte d'Ivoire, between January and February 2024
Africa Guinea-Bissau Police officers have been deployed since Wednesday to prevent any access to the premises of the National Assembly; MPs of Pai-Terra Ranka coalition had gathered in front of Parliament to continue activities, despite the decree to dissolve the Assembly
Africa Guinea-Bissau An Ecowas communiqué 'strongly condemns the violence and all attempts to disrupt the constitutional order and the rule of law in Guinea-Bissau', calling for 'the arrest and prosecution of the perpetrators'