Guinea-Bissau
Facts, researched articles, and events related to Guinea-Bissau, drawn from the Provenance Africa archive.
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- The people of Guinea-Bissau are known as Bissau-Guineans (not Guinea-Bissauans). Only 14% (est.) speak the…
- Carmen Pereira, a leading figure in Guinea-Bissau's independence movement and the first woman to serve as t… (2016)
- African Countries of Portuguese Official Language (PALOP) has only Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozam…
- Kumba Yalá, president of Guinea-Bissau from 2000 until a military coup deposed him in 2003, died at a milit… (2014)
- Guinea-Bissau and the Cape Verde Islands until 1980 were a single country. It was a coup that separated bot…
- Guinea-Bissau encouraged comedian Whoopi Goldberg to visit when in 2007, DNA tests showed she was descended…
- In 2010, to start a business required 216 days for each procedure in Guinea-Bissau; it took three days in R…
- Henrique Rosa, who served as President of Guinea-Bissau, died. (2013)
- Malam Bacai Sanhá, President of Guinea-Bissau, died in office at age 64. (2012)
- João Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau, was assassinated by soldiers in Bissau. (2009)
- Guinea-Bissau President Kumba Ialá was ousted in a bloodless military coup led by General Veríssimo Correia… (2003)
- President Joao Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau was ousted in a military coup. (1999)
- Portugal formally recognized the independence of Guinea-Bissau, a year after the PAIGC's unilateral declara… (1974)
- Guinea-Bissau was admitted to the United Nations following its independence from Portugal. (1974)
- The PAIGC-led People's National Assembly unilaterally declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portu… (1973)
- Amílcar Cabral, the leader of the independence movements in Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde, was assassinated… (1973)
- Titina Silá, Bissau-Guinean revolutionary and PAIGC commander who fought for independence from Portugal, wa… (1973)
- PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked Portuguese Army forces stationed in Tite, officially beginning the Guinea… (1963)
- Henrique Rosa, businessman who served as President of Guinea-Bissau during its 2003-2005 transitional gover… (1946)
- Titina Silá, a leading commander of the PAIGC independence movement in Guinea-Bissau, was born; she was kil… (1943)
- Amílcar Cabral, the anti-colonial leader who founded the PAIGC and led the independence movements of Guinea… (1924)