Sources: BBC
Nigeria grants asylum to Guinea-Bissau opposition leader and presidential candidate Fernando Dias da Costa at its embassy in Bissau to protect Dias from detention by the military junta. 2025-12-1
Guinea-Bissau's military junta installs a 28-member provisional government after seizing power, while ousted president Umaro Sissoco Embaló travels to Brazzaville, Republic of the Congo, where he intends to stay. 2025-11-29
Authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they have seized more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine that was found on a plane arriving from Venezuela at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Bissau. 2024-09-9
Geraldo Martins is appointed as the prime minister of Guinea-Bissau. 2023-08-8
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
Former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau and suspected drug kingpin, Bubo Na Tchuto, is arrested in a United States-led sting operation off the coast of West Africa. 2013-04-4
Guinea-Bissau is suspended from the African Union one week after a coup d'état. 2012-04-17
Agence France-Presse reports that the military of Guinea-Bissau have staged a coup against the civilian government. 2012-04-12
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 chief of staff and Prime Minister Carlos Domingos Gomes Júnior are "seized" as national radio broadcasts are replaced by military music. 2010-04-1