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A humanitarian aid flotilla headed for Gaza was halted in Turkey after Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flag from two out of three vessels.
2024-04-27

President Umaro Sissoco Embaló dismisses Prime Minister Geraldo Martins, appointing Rui Duarte Barros as Martins' successor.
2023-12-20

Geraldo Martins is appointed as the prime minister of Guinea-Bissau.
2023-08-8

Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embaló says that gunmen tried to kill him and his entire cabinet at the government palace yesterday during the coup d'état attempt. The heavy gunfire, which lasted for five hours, resulted in the deaths of at least four attackers and two guards. The attackers are said to be "linked to drug trafficking in the country".
2022-02-2

The first COVID-19 cases are confirmed in Mali and Guinea-Bissau.
2020-03-25

Citizens of Guinea-Bissau head to the polls in the second round of the country's latest presidential election.
2019-12-29

The latest presidential election in Guinea-Bissau has to go into a second round on December 29 as no candidate managed to win more than 50% of the votes during the first round. The second round will be a run-off between Domingos Simões Pereira and Umaro Sissoco Embaló while incumbent president José Mário Vaz was eliminated from the race.
2019-11-27

Guinea-Bissau is suspended from the African Union one week after a coup d'état.
2012-04-17

Voters in Guinea-Bissau go to the polls for a presidential election following the death of President Malam Bacai Sanhá in January.
2012-03-18

Guinea-Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanhá takes a "sovereign decision" to inaugurate mutineering General Antonio Indjai as army chief, causing upset to the United States which decides not to support this.
2010-06-30