Augie’s Restaurant will ring in the New Year with a dinner-and-dance celebration that offers an alternative to downtown ...

The Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) rejected on Sunday a transition programme announced by Guinea-Bissau’s military rulers and demanded a swift return to constitutional order, ...

The announcement came as presidents from across the region met in Nigeria for a bi-annual meeting whose agenda was dominated by two recent coup attempts: a successful military takeover in ...

Presidents and representatives address the media and delegates during the opening of the 68th Ordinary Session of the ECOWAS Authority of Heads of State and Government in Abuja, Nigeria, December 14, ...

West African regional bloc ECOWAS on Sunday threatened "targeted sanctions" on anyone obstructing Guinea-Bissau's return to civilian rule following last month's coup. The announcement came as ...

BISSAU, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's military junta adopted a 12-month transitional charter that bars the interim president and prime minister from running in the next elections, two weeks after ...

The ruling military junta in Guinea‑Bissau has decreed that its leading general will not be eligible to contest upcoming elections, following the November 26 coup that removed President Umaro Sissoco ...

Just over a week after seizing power, Guinea-Bissau’s military says it has established a National Transitional Council. The Council will prepare the instruments of transition and oversee transitional ...

Guinea-Bissau has had nine attempted coups and five successful ones since its independence in September 1973. Salah Ben Hammou, a researcher with a focus on the politics of military coups, explains ...

Underneath a ridge in the southern highlands of Guinea, a west African country of 14m people, lies one of the world’s biggest deposits of iron ore. Mining of the 3bn-tonne deposit, which would be ...

A coalition of eminent Africans has urged ECOWAS to release Guinea-Bissau’s election results and halt military interference threatening democracy. A coalition of 20 eminent African statesmen, ...

A former President of Cabo Verde, Pedro Pires, together with a group of former senior officials of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), has called for urgent action to restore ...