MYSTERIOUS: Guinea bissau - What They Never Told You

Controversial US-backed vaccine trial in African newborns halted

Hepatitis B study in Guinea-Bissau that was to be funded by CDC and that drew global backlash ‘will not move forward’

The Guardian - US · Oct 21

Police Raid Offices of RFK Jr.-Endorsed Researchers Planning Vaccine Trial for 7,000 African Newborns

Guinea-Bissau police raided researchers' offices and seized hepatitis B vaccines amid a dispute over a trial involving 7,000 newborns.

International Business Times UK · Oct 21

RFK Jr’s ‘deities of vaccine research’ raided by police in Guinea-Bissau

Police seize doses of hepatitis B vaccine from people at center of dispute over research on African newborns

The Guardian - US · Oct 20

Why West Africa has had so many coups and how to prevent more

West Africa’s latest successful coup, in Burkina Faso on 24 January 2022, has renewed unease about coups “returning” and democracies “dying” in Africa. The recent attempt in Guinea-Bissau, too, recalled the first decades after independence, when coups were rampant.

The Conversation · Feb 15, 2022

Failed coup puts spotlight back on Guinea-Bissau's role in cocaine trade

In October, President Umaro Sissoco Embalo told French radio that drug trafficking and corruption were over in Guinea-Bissau, a country that has struggled to shake off its reputation as a "narco state" of West Africa.

Reuters · Feb 11, 2022

Guinea-Bissau president says former drug traffickers behind failed coup

Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo said on Thursday that three people previously arrested by U.S. authorities for drug trafficking were behind an attempted coup last week.

Reuters · Feb 10, 2022

Radio journalist attacked in Guinea-Bissau after failed coup

A journalist in Guinea-Bissau was attacked at home by men with AK-47 rifles on Tuesday night, a day after the radio station where he works was ransacked, said a witness and a colleague.

Reuters · Feb 9, 2022

Coups are all the rage again in beleaguered Africa

Military coups are back in fashion in Africa. There have been over 200 attempted coups in the continent since 1960, about half of them successful, but in the past two decades they had dropped to only two a year. Last year saw six, however, and there have been two already…

Bangkok Post · Feb 8, 2022

Guinea-Bissau government says coup attempt aimed to kill president

The attackers in a failed coup attempt in Guinea-Bissau this week intended to assassinate the president and were part of a well-funded and tightly planned plot, the government has said.

Reuters · Feb 3, 2022

Several killed in failed coup attempt in Guinea-Bissau

In tonight's edition: At least 11 people are killed in a failed coup attempt in Guinea-Bissau. An investigation is launched into the armed attack. Meanwhile in DR Congo, dozens of displaced people are killed in a machete attack on a refugee camp in Ituri province. Plus, US sanctions are still…

France 24 · Feb 2, 2022