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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- Guinea-Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha died Monday in a Paris hospital, the west African nation's embassy in Paris said. He was 64.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, July 26 (UPI) -- Voters in Guinea-Bissau went to the polls Sunday for a run-off election to replace assassinated President Joao Bernardo Vieira, officials said.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, April 2 (UPI) -- A U.N. report is calling on Guinea-Bissau leaders to cooperate with an investigation into the assassination of the country's president.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, March 4 (UPI) -- New interim Guinea-Bissau President Raimundo Perreira says the West African nation's people must help him restore stability to the country.
UNITED NATIONS, March 2 (UPI) -- The United Nations and the U.S. State Department Monday separately condemned the killings of the Guinea-Bissau president and his chief of staff.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, March 2 (UPI) -- Joao Bernardo Vieira, president of Guinea-Bissau, was slain by army troops Monday following a bombing that killed the army chief of staff, diplomats say.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A coup attempt in Guinea-Bissau undermines the African Union's efforts to discourage such unconstitutional power grabs, an analyst says.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 23 (UPI) -- Guniea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira and his family were unhurt in an attack by gunmen on his residence, U.N. officials said Sunday.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Officials in the African state of Guinea-Bissau say that a top navy commander tried to recruit other military officers for a coup.
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, July 24 (UPI) -- Voters in Guinea-Bissau will decide Sunday who their next president is after a 2003 coup and years of political turmoil.
