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More instability in Guinea Bissau
After killing their president earlier this year, the military strongmen in Guinea Bissau seem bent on eliminating his surviving allies. The BBC reports that the tiny West African nation’s army killed a...
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coup in Guinea-Bissau
The BBC reports that a coup is underway in Guinea-Bissau. More here.. and here You may recall that Guinea-Bissau had a coup last year after the president fell out with the head of the military.Filed...
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The Gambia, Iran, Nigeria and the confusion over arms
Remember the story about the mysterious cache of arms found in Lagos Port, Nigeria? Well, turns out the story goes beyond Nigeria. FP reports that there is reason to believe that the arms from Iran...
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Africa’s budding narco-states?
UPDATE: The Kenyan Prime Minister just admitted to the presence of drug money in Kenyan politics. Huge. Also, check the UNODC’s drug trafficking patterns for East Africa. Also, does anyone out there...
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Guinea’s Alpha Conde attacked
President Alpha Conde, Guinea’s first elected president since independence, appears to have survived a coup attempt in the early hours of Tuesday. Mr. Conde’s residence was hit by rocket fire in what...
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Guinea Bissau President is Dead, succession still unclear
Bacai Sanha, President of Guinea-Bissau has died in a Paris hospital. Mr. Sanha was elected president in July 2009 following the assassination of former president Joao Bernardo Vieira by elements in...
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Elite political instability continues in Guinea-Bissau
The late Pres. Vieira. Source: Wikipedia UPDATE: The coup leaders have set up a transitional government and dissolved all state institutions. The BBC reports: Soldiers have taken control of much of the...
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In which I write about Africa’s emerging drug problem
The globalization of terrorism over the last decade has created a situation in which the number one threat to international security is no longer strong, conquering states, but failing ones that...
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Portugal used to claim to be a big country
“This map is based on one produced by Henrique Galvão in 1934, supporting the imperial ambitions of the then-new Portuguese dictator Antonio Salazar.” Angola (pop. 30m) is three and a half times the...
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