Guinea-Bissau Occupying 36,120 square kilometers (13,950 square miles), about three times the size of the U.S. state of Connecticut, the Republic of Guinea-Bissau is bounded on the south by the Republic of Guinea and on the north by Senegal. Its...

Republic of Guinea-Bissau República da Guiné-Bissau CAPITAL: Bissau FLAG: The flag has equal horizontal stripes of yellow over green, with a red vertical stripe at the hoist bearing a black star. ANTHEM: Esta é a Nossa...

Guinea-Bissau POPULATION 1,345,479AFRICAN INDIGENOUS BELIEFS 65 percentISLAM 30 percentCHRISTIANITY (ROMAN CATHOLIC AND PROTESTANT) 5 percent Country Overview Introduction The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (formerly Portuguese Guinea) is a small West...

Koumba YalaPresident (pronounced "KOOM-bah YAY-lah") "I am appealing to all the people, the main stakeholders of change in the country. The national reconciliation process has to succeed because we are compelled to shoulder...

The Republic of Guinea-Bissau (pronounced /ˈgɪni bɨˈsaʊ/; Portuguese: República da Guiné-Bissau, IPA: [ʁɛˈpublikɐ dɐ giˈnɛ biˈsau]), is a country in western Africa, and one of the smallest nations in continental Africa. It is bordered by...

Amid growing demand in Europe, South American traffickers are moving billions of dollars worth of cocaine through the tiny West African nation of Guinea-Bissau, an amount so large it dwarfs all other economic sectors combined and could destabilize the coup-prone country, a top U.N. official...

The former prime minister of Guinea-Bissau sought asylum at the local U.N. office on Wednesday, three days after he accused the tiny West African nation's president of murder.Guinea-Bissau's interior minister had issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. earlier Wednesday. The...

Two Mauritanians suspected of involvement in the killings of four French tourists were arrested Friday and officials said they are believed to belong to an Algerian-based terror cell affiliated with al-Qaida.The two suspects, both in their 20s, have confessed to participating in the Christmas Eve...

The fishermen who came across the bags of white powder bobbing in the ocean knew they had found something valuable, but they weren't sure exactly what.Back in their village, women unwrapped the layers of plastic and sprinkled the contents on their crops, thinking it might...