Guinea-Bissau military (forces, troups, soldiers, police)

While ECOWAS welcomed the new prime minister's appointment, its members also extended the ECOWAS mission in Guinea Bissau through June 2018 and urged the nation's military forces to maintain peace and security as Vaz moves forward in establishing a consensus government. Guinea Bissau's ...

Security forces cracked down hard at the weekend — such as outside the freshly-showered young man's house. "I was just passing by, I didn't do anything at all," shouts one of the men as he is pulled onto the loading area of the police truck. "We've been trying to get rid of this dictatorship for 50 years," says ...

Angola will resume its agricultural and bauxite exploration projects in Guinea-Bissau, Angola's second deputy speaker, Higino Carneiro, said on Tuesday in ... Cooperation between Angola and Guinea-Bissau was suspended in April 2012, following a military coup in Bissau that led to the forced exit of an ...

Police are appealing for information after a semi-professional footballer was racially abused on a bus. Pavel Vieira, 26, said he filmed the ... Mr Vieira, who has represented his country Guinea-Bissau, told the Liverpool Echo he wanted to thank the people to stood up for him. He said: “I would like to meet ...

The potential for military confrontation, inadvertent accidents and consequent misjudgments in Syria and the Gulf may require the contingency for emergency .... Coordinator of the Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at the Department of State and Ambassador to Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau.

Under the one-sided “Defence Pact”, France is guaranteed a right to invade any Francophone country in defence of its interests and also to station own troops permanently in military bases and installations around affected countries. That was why 450 French soldiers could control a population of 20 million ...

On the domestic front, according to the East African, Kiir faces defiance from some of his ministers and military personnel, forcing him to sack a number of them. Since the beginning of the year, Kiir has sacked several ministers, governors, top army and police officers. Internationally, the United States and ...

OE 18 is a regional U.S. Navy exercise sponsored by U.S. Africa Command to improve interoperability and cooperation among the maritime forces of Gulf of Guinea nations, ... Mount Whitney operates with a combined crew of more than 300 Sailors and Military Sealift Command civil service mariners.

Maritime forces from Gulf of Guinea nations, Europe, North and South America and several regional and international organizations began the ... Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, ...

Xi was also unanimously elected chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC). ... President of Guinea-Bissau Jose Mario Vaz said the Chinese people have been sharing weal and woe as well as the same destiny with the Guinean people since the early period of their struggle for national liberation.

Maritime forces from Gulf of Guinea nations, Europe, North and South America and several regional and international organizations began the ... Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, ...

When the movement eventually comes to power, the military, intelligence and security groups are powerful and often decide who the party leader should be. ... Often, the only way to get these parties out of power, is for them to break apart or through coups, as in the case of the PAIGC of Guinea Bissau.

In Guinea-Bissau, the underrepresentation of women in decision-making is almost systematic. Currently, very few women sit in parliament and the presence of women in the upper ranks of the Defense and Security Forces is very limited. In order to address this issue, Interpeace and its local partner, Voz di ...

However, his Nigerian counterpart, former military ruler Muhammadu Buhari, took a defiantly protectionist stance. “We will not agree to anything that ... Those out of the bloc are Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Zambia, Burundi, Eritrea, Benin, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau. “It would have been great if the ...

NOTES WITH SATISFACTION the significant decrease of hostilities between the Government of Sudan and the rebel forces in Darfur and .... The Assembly, recognising the critical role of the mission in the resolution of the crisis and restoration of peace and stability in Guinea Bissau, CALLS FOR the ...

Indeed, author Frederick Forsyth happened to be researching a new book in Bissau in 2009, when the then-president and army chief were assassinated in what was thought to be a tit-for-tat double murder, the former attacked with a machete hours after the latter was bombed at military HQ. Both were ...

Responding to reports of gunfire at the school, officers from the Dalton Police Department found the teacher in question holed up inside a classroom. ... One of the poorest countries in the world and prone to political instability, the West African country of Guinea-Bissau is a playground for drug traffickers.

By other terms, the Council expressed its readiness to take additional measures to respond to any worsening of the situation in Guinea-Bissau, and decided to review the sanctions established by resolution 2048 (2012) in seven months' time. Taking note of the recent ECOWAS decision to impose sanctions ...

This political impasse has prevented progress on reforms that are critical to addressing key conflict risks in Guinea Bissau. The situation is only likely to become more volatile as we move towards elections. We have already seen violent confrontations between demonstrators and police, and witnessed ...

Many delegates emphasized the importance of implementing the Conakry Agreement, including the representative of Equatorial Guinea, who stressed that the accord was the main reference point for the political future of the country. Political actors in Guinea-Bissau should join forces to make it possible to ...

Recalls its previous communiques and press statements on the situation in Guinea-Bissau, in particular, Press Statement [PSC/PR/BR. ... In the same vein, Council underscores the need for the security and armed forces of Guinea Bissau to refrain from interfering in this political and institutional crisis and to ...

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) penalized around 19 Guinea-Bissau politicians over their inability to end political instability. The sanctioned ... Guinea-Bissau has previously seen several military coups and political instability since its independence from Portugal. ECOWAS is ...

ECOWAS has imposed sanctions on 20 Guinea-Bissau politicians and businessmen, including travel bans and asset freezes, accusing them of undermining efforts to resolve a prolonged ... Guinea-Bissau has been plagued by military coups and instability since its independence from Portugal in 1974.

ECOWAS took the decision due to the long impasse and after security forces blocked PAIGC members from holding a party congress. The naming of a new prime minister, Augusto Antonio Artur Da Silva, at the end of January was not met with satisfaction by ECOWAS, who decried “the failure to appoint a ...

In view of the fragility of the security situation all stakeholders must refrain from any action outside of the constitutional order and rule of law which may lead to further instability. The security forces must maintain their non-intervention stance in the political crisis. The EU stands ready to maintain the support to ...

The West African delegation also noted a lack of freedom of assembly and urged Guinea Bissau's security forces to uphold the country's constitution and remain neutral toward the political opposition. ECOWAS said it appeals to the AU, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, European Union and ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau - Six soldiers were arrested in mid-December for an attempt on the life of Guinea-Bissau's army chief, AFP learned Monday from a military court source. Two heads of the armed forces were murdered in 2004 and 2009 in coup-prone Guinea-Bissau, where the army is often ...

A Brazilian couple has been arrested at Guinea Bissau's main airport after they were found in possession of cocaine.The country's judicial police said the couple arrived at the Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Bissau aboard a plane belonging to the Portugal-based carrier TAP on Saturday. The two ...

Often, the only way to get these parties out of power is for them to break apart or through coups, as in the case of the PAIGC of Guinea Bissau. In the ANC, although the military by the 1980s had increasingly played an influential role, it never dominated power as much as in sister African liberation ...

This TTX is part of a Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa (MARFOREUR/AF) and Naval Forces Africa (NAVAF) initiative, Maritime Operations ... Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Morocco, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Portugal, Republic of Congo, Sao Tome & Principe, Senegal, Sierra Leone, ...

Ndour, is a seasoned and very proficient senior military officer who brings to ECOMIG, a wealth of experience that is expected to add a fresh dimension ... Under his watch, ECOMIG will further enhance the existing positive working relations and joint operations with the Gambian Armed Forces and also work ...

Bissau - Eleven people died when a minibus became trapped in a forest fire in rural Guinea-Bissau, police and doctors said on Friday. The accident happened on Thursday night, after the overcrowded vehicle left the village of Konkoli, near the capital Bissau, on an 80km trip to a market in Bissora.