While government troops and rebels continued to trade artillery fire Tuesday in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, the onset of the rainy season increased fears for the tens of thousands of people fleeing the fighting in the former Portuguese colony.
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Government troops and rebel soldiers holed up in a military garrison in the capital of Guinea-Bissau pounded each other's positions with artillery fire Tuesday in what reportedly was the heaviest fighting since an army revolt 10 days ago.
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Government forces and rebels exchanged sporadic mortar fire Monday in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, Portuguese media reported, as attempts to mediate an end to the month-old conflict in the former Portuguese colony appeared to have stalled.
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Sporadic gunfire crackled through the capital of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, raising fears for a two-month-old peace agreement between a rebel military faction and the government of the tiny west African country, news reports said.
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Sporadic gunfire crackled through the capital of Guinea-Bissau on Thursday, raising fears for a two-month-old peace agreement between a rebel military faction and the government of the small west African country, news reports said.
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More than 3, 000 people Thursday jammed the harbor in the capital of Guinea-Bissau hoping to catch ships out of the West African nation before government forces moved to crush a rebellion led by renegade soldiers, according to news reports.
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More than a hundred dead bodies reportedly were strewn on the streets of the capital of Guinea-Bissau, where rebels said they were willing to negotiate an end to their weeklong revolt in the former Portuguese colony if the president steps down.
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More than a hundred dead bodies reportedly were strewn on the streets of the capital of Guinea-Bissau as rebels said they were willing to negotiate an end to their week-long revolt in the former Portuguese colony if the president steps down.
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Mrs . Diallo arrived Tuesday from Conakry, the capital of Guinea, and went immediately to the vestibule, about the size of a walk-in closet, where her son was shot by officers who were searching the Soundview neighborhood for a rapist.
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The Portuguese-owned boat neared Senegal's capital Dakar on Friday, after traveling up the West African coast from the battered capital of Guinea-Bissau where a five-month-old civil war recently reignited, the Portuguese news agency Lusa said.
