Guinea Bissau, Africa

When Aisha (not her real name) went into labour in Gabu, 160km east of the capital Bissau, she did not know she was pregnant with twins. The first...

Recent political instability including the early August dissolution of government could delay long-awaited plans to reform Guinea-Bissau’s swollen...

Up to 3,160 people have now contracted cholera and 73 people have died across the country and health minister Camilo Simoes Lopes told IRIN the...

UNICEF is supporting the Ministry of Health of Guinea Bissau in fighting a cholera epidemic that has quickly spread across the country, and is...

Bissau-based private radio station Pindjiqidy Radio broadcast early Wednesday a phone call from the head of Guinea Bissau’s navy, Jose Americo Bubo...

Rising food and fuel costs could trigger social conflict in Guinea-Bissau according to the latest report by the International Monetary Fund (IMF),...

President Joao Bernardo Vieira announced he had dissolved parliament on 5 August replacing Prime Minister Martinho Ndafa Cabi of the African Party...

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,...

As the profits to be made from fishing diminish with rising fuel costs and poor management of the sector, fishermen are increasingly turning to drugs...