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Guinea-Bissau, officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau, is a country in West Africa that covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi) with an estimated population of 2,026,778. It borders Senegal to its north and Guinea to its southeast.
The region now known as Guinea-Bissau, in West Africa, has been inhabited by humans for thousands of years. During the 13th century AD, it was a province of the Mali Empire which later became independent as the empire of Kaabu. Portugal claimed the region during the 1450s, but its control was limited to several forts along the coast during most of this period; it gained control of the mainland after the pacification campaigns from 1912 to 1915. The offshore Bijagos Islands were not colonized until 1936. Guinea-Bissau became independent in 1974, and the introduction of multi-party politics in 1991 led to the first multi-party elections in 1994. A civil war broke out in 1998, which lasted until the following year.
The Republic of Guinea-Bissau follows a nonaligned foreign policy and seeks friendly and cooperative relations with a wide variety of states and organizations. France, Portugal, Angola, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Libya, Cuba, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Ghana, and Russia have diplomatic offices in Bissau.
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 until his assassination in 2009.
Manuel Saturnino da Costa was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau from 26 October 1994 to 6 June 1997.
Guinea-Bissau–United States relations are bilateral relations between Guinea-Bissau and the United States.
Guinea-Bissau–Russia relations are the bilateral foreign relations between Guinea-Bissau and Russia.
On 12 April 2012, a coup d'état in Guinea-Bissau was staged by elements of the armed forces about two weeks before the second round of a presidential election between Carlos Gomes Júnior and Kumba Ialá. The coup started in the evening with military personnel and equipment making its way onto the streets, followed by the state-owned media being taken off-air.
José Mário Vaz is a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as president of Guinea-Bissau from 23 June 2014 to 27 February 2020.
Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embaló is a Bissau-Guinean politician serving as the president of Guinea-Bissau since February 2020. He is a political scientist and military officer who previously served as prime minister between November 2016 and January 2018.
Suzi Barbosa is a Bissau-Guinean politician, who is corrently Special Adviser of the President of the Republic for Foreign Affairs. She was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2019 to 2023 and was appointed Minister 4 times. Before she Secretary of State for International Cooperation and also Diplomatic and Political Adviser for the Prime Minister Aristides Gomes. From 2014 till 2023 she was member of parliament elected 3 times and also Chair of the Women Parliamentarians Network of Guinea-Bissau.
A coup d'état was attempted in Guinea-Bissau on 1 February 2022. A few hours later, president Umaro Sissoco Embaló declared the coup over, he said that "many" members of the security forces had been killed in a "failed attack against democracy".
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