Guinea-Bissau
- Stéphanie Fillion
- • February 4, 2019
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A trip by the United Nations Security Council to the Ivory Coast and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa to promote state sovereignty; a visit to the UN from one of Africa’s longest-serving head of state, President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo; and …
- Categories: Africa, Security Council Presidency
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- Adriana Erthal Abdenur
- • October 3, 2017
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Since attaining independence from Portugal, in 1973, Guinea-Bissau has had almost a dozen presidents, none of whom has managed to finish his mandate. Recurring coups, assassinations and political turmoil at the elite level have contributed to a landscape of instability …
- Categories: Women
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • July 15, 2014
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Until recently, José Ramos-Horta led the United Nations’ peace-building mission in Guinea-Bissau, stepping in a year and a half ago as the country reeled from a coup in 2012 and the UN’s former chief there, Joseph Mutaboba, quit his job under …
- Categories: Africa, Governance, Peace and Security
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • January 2, 2013
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José Ramos-Horta has been appointed the new United Nations envoy to Guinea-Bissau. The former Timorese president and Nobel Peace Prize winner is replacing Joseph Mutaboba, a diplomat from Rwanda, as the special representative and chief of the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office …
- Categories: Africa, GOINGS-ON, Security Council
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- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 17, 2012
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Guinea-Bissau’s woes never end. Now the United Nations, which has a peace-building support mission in the capital, Bissau, might need to restart its work there since the head of the office has left. Joseph Mutaboba, a 63-year-old Rwandan diplomat who …
- Categories: Africa
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- Mirva Lempiainen
- • May 9, 2012
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BAFATÁ, Guinea-Bissau — On a quiet sandy street in this small town, amid old houses with their paint peeling off, stands one unfittingly polished white and pink building. It’s the newly renovated childhood home of freedom fighter Amílcar Cabral, the …
- Categories: Africa
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