A haunting melody rings through the crumbling streets of the city of Bissau, the capital of the west African Republic of Guinea-Bissau. An old man, dressed in a raffia skirt with strings of pink and ...

Today, if the small West African state of Guinea Bissau is famous—or, perhaps more correctly, infamous—for anything, it’s for frequent coups d’état. But that hasn’t always been the case. After gaining ...

Guinea-Bissau is a nation known around the world for political killings, drug trafficking and crippling poverty. As the country awaits the results of presidential elections held June 28, a group of ...