Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Guinea-Bissau News Updates -- March 3, 2009

Gone: Renegade soldiers gunned down Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernando Vieira on Monday. Jose Manuel Ribeiro/Reuters

Guinea-Bissau Assassinations: Is Colombia's Drug Trade Behind Them? -- Christian Science Monitor

The murder of the president and the Army chief on Monday raises questions about the nature of the instability in this African nation.

Johannesburg, South Africa - The assassinations were committed gangland style – a bomb in a stairwell, and a rapid fire shootout – which is perhaps not so surprising in a country that has swiftly become a major transit hub for narcotics into Europe.

But the tit-for-tat revenge killings of Guinea-Bissau's top two leaders, its Army chief and its president, have left this poor country without leaders and the prospect of continued military rule.

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More News On The Turmoil In Guinea-Bissau

Cocaine cartels corrupt politics of Guinea-Bissau - -Sydney Morning Herald
Bissau to swear in new leader after president killed -- Reuters
Speaker to be Guinea-Bissau head -- AL Jazeera
Bissau to swear in new leader after president killed -- International Herald Tribune
Guinea Bissau assassination 'not a coup': AU -- AFP
History of crisis haunts Guinea-Bissau -- BBC
Envoys concerned over Guinea-Bissau democracy -- AFP

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