Guinea Bissau
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ECOMIB
ECOWAS Mission in Guinea Bissau (Other)
Begin: 04/12
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UNIOGBIS
United Nations Integrated Peace-building Office in Guinea Bissau (UN-Peacebuilding)
Authorization date: 06/09
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Ecowas military mission personnel have started to land in Guinea Bissau, the government's spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. In February, Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas) agreed to deploy a military mission to Guinea Bissau following a “failed” coup attempt.
West Africa bloc ECOWAS has announced it will send a “stabilizing support force” to Guinea-Bissau, where an attempted putsch claimed 11 lives. After a summit on Thursday evening, the 15-nation bloc “firmly condemned the coup attempt” in the country of two million people.
At least six people were killed in a failed attempt to overthrow Guinea-Bissau's President Umaro Sissoco Embalo, state radio said on Wednesday, as residents of the capital cautiously returned to daily life.
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres reaffirmed the Organization’s commitment to the people of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, the final day of operations for the UN Integrated Peacebuilding Office in the West African country (UNIOGBIS).
ECOWAS will gradually withdraw its intervention force in Guinea-Bissau. A first group has already left Bissau on August 27.
The attack on Capital FM was condemned by Guinea-Bissau government officials … Condemnation also came from five of the country’s international partners: ECOWAS, the African Union, the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries, the European Union and the United Nations.
More than two months after the second round of the presidential elections Guinea-Bissau is sinking into a post-electoral deadlock.
Two months after Guinea-Bissau's presidential election runoff, projected winner Umaro Sissoco Embalo claimed victory and immediately installed a new cabinet. The largest party in parliament called it a coup. … The international community remains divided on how to assess the current situation in Guinea Bissau.
A dozen soldiers have occupied the grounds of Guinea-Bissau’s Supreme Court, the court said on Tuesday, deepening a post-election crisis that has resulted in the appointment of rival presidents and the silencing of state media.
The Security Council decided today to extend the mandate of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) until 31 December as it continues its phased drawdown, and to review in six months’ time the sanctions regime it imposed in 2012.