Experts fear parliamentary elections scheduled for November may be destabilised following the withdrawal of the opposition African Party for the...

A cholera epidemic sweeping across Guinea Bissau has now infected 1,077 people - three-quarters of them in the capital Bissau - and killed 25,...

Cholera which first broke out in Guinea Bissau in May in the southern region of Tombali has now broken out in the capital Bissau killing four people...

The Portuguese version of UNICEF’s annual flagship report The State of the World’s Children 2008: Child Survival was launched on 20 March in Guinea...

This tiny impoverished nation has developed a new industry in the last few years, becoming a major transhipment point for drugs between South America...

Mali has won the Amilcar Cabral Zone II title for the third time after defeating Cape Verde 2-1 in a replay final on Monday. The Malians who...

If they could go back in time, perhaps they would do things differently. Three women who revealed their HIV-positive status on local...

The government and the army in Guinea Bissau are implicated in drug trafficking according to the latest report on Guinea Bissau by the UN...

The annual female genital mutilation season in Guinea-Bissau begins when schools close for the winter holidays from July to September. The UN...

Despite the serious threat posed by landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW) in Guinea Bissau, in recent months international eyes have...