Guinea-Bissau

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

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

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

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