Liberia: $100 million worth of cocaine seized, a concern in West Africa
West Africa has become increasingly a transit zone for drugs produced in Latin America and destined for Europe. Liberian authorities, with the help of the […]
Guinea-Bissau
Guinea-Bissau: Braima Camará is re-elected president of MADEM-G15 and promises to fight for an absolute majority
The delegates to the 2nd congress of the Movement for Democratic Change (MADEM-G15) renewed their political confidence in Braima Camará, the party’s founding leader. Camará […]
Guinea-Bissau’s PR in New York for UN General Assembly and ECOWAS Summit
The President of Guinea-Bissau, Umaro Sissoco Embaló, traveled this 19th September to New York to attend the 77th session of the UN General Assembly, which […]
Morocco, Nigeria, ECOWAS Sign Gas Pipeline Agreement
Morocco’s National Agency for Mines and Hydrocarbons (ONHYM), Nigeria’s National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPC), and the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS) signed Thursday […]
International Monetary Fund in Bissau to analyze public remuneration scheme
A mission from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrived in Guinea Bissau to analyze, along with the authorities, the salary bill of the Public Administration […]
Portugal supports the Lusophone Pact with 400 million euros
The African Development Bank and the Portuguese government have signed a €400 million guarantee agreement under the Lusophone Compact. The compact provides strong support for […]
Guinea-Bissau: Party leader again stopped from leaving country
The chairman of the PAIGC, Domingos Simões Pereira, was again prevented from leaving Guinea-Bissau, despite an order of the Court of Appeal revoking the impediment […]
Macron wants to cooperate with ECOWAS to fight terrorism
Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday he wanted to continue “to build its action” in the region with the organization of West African states to fight […]
Emmanuel Macron to visit Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau next week
This will be the first time that President Emmanuel Macron visits these three countries. Cameroon, the leading economic power in Central Africa, is a strategic […]
ECOWAS lifts part of its sanctions against Mali
The 61st Summit of ECOWAS ended on Sunday 3 July in Accra, Ghana. The West African organization discussed its retaliatory measures against Mali, Burkina Faso […]