Former President of Guinea Bissau. He was assassinated on March 2, 2009 by the army.
UN News Service (New York)
5 June 2009
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has voiced his concern at the "emerging pattern of killings" of high profile personalities in Guinea-Bissau, where a presidential candidate and a member of parliament were gunned down today, just months after the country's president and his chief of staff were assassinated.
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This is what awaits the corrupt & heartless politicians in Nigeria. Ordinary folks have nothing to worry about the military juntas who are out to remedy the excesses of African civilian politicians. As Emperor Yar, today, turns the military guns on defenseless women and children in the Niger Delta, tomorrow, the same JTF will turn the same guns at him and his fellow looters in the NASS. Mark my words....the same way Shagari went, if he is lucky.
Poverty and lack of political awereness couple with self-fishness of the Bissau leadership is tearing apart what suspose to be a beautiful country. It is sadden to read about the mumerous irresponsible killings of people by the militry in the name of whatever they are claiming to protect/defend. Nino's return to Bissau was a big mistake and Bissua and its people will continue to pay the price for sometime, if the security council did not intervein to protect its citizen and if possible to disarm its bandits they call militry personals.
Violence has never solved African problems but at times it is necessary to show those that hang on to power and their associates that the people not fools.There comes a time when people get fed up with politics and require basic needs of survival.Just because the President died and you switched ships does not make you a saint.You were eating the same bread with the President and now join him at the same banquet.Good riddance!!!!!!The laws of the Serengeti have balanced the scales of Mother Nature.
This Day (Lagos)
15 June 2009
Chief of Defence Staff, Air Chief Marshal Paul Dike, has been mandated by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Chiefs of Defence, to lead a contact mission to mediate in the crisis in Guinea Bissau.
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African Union (Addis Ababa)
15 June 2009
The Peace and Security Council of the African Union (AU), at its 192nd meeting held on 10 June 2009, considered the report of the mission undertaken by the Council to West Africa, from 24 April to 1st May 2009, during which the Mission visited Guinea Bissau and Côte d'Ivoire, in order to evaluate the political and security situation and the state of preparations for the forthcoming ...
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UN News Service (New York)
9 June 2009
The Security Council today spoke out against the recent killings of top political figures in Guinea-Bissau, serving as a "tragic setback" to the West African nation which has been rocked by a series of civil conflicts, coups d'état and uprisings in recent decades.
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Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
5 March 2009
Violence was a trademark of João Bernardo Vieira's life: he survived a coup, four attempts on his life and 13 years fighting the Portuguese colonial army in Guinea-Bissau. But the legend died at the hands of the corruption and violence he himself fed.
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Ansumane Mane, a Gambian, who won favor in Guinea-Bissau by his military efforts during La Luta, was Mandinka - NOT Balanta.
UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
2 March 2009
The assassination of President João Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau, hours after the killing of the country's army chief of staff, has dealt a severe blow to efforts at stable, civilian government in the coup-wracked country, according to analysts.
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Comming from a country that endures violence all times understand and want to make clear to the people of Guinea Bissau who I love and adore that violence will never ever solve their problems, and the country will stay as it is at present.
Both assassination has done harm to the people and to generation to come. I pledge all people involved and wish they can read my message to love their people and this so beautiful country, struggle against poverty and illeteracy, demand for proper medical care, education, give a chance for business development, improve agriculture, produce and export , build a healthy society and close doors for drugs and crime , this the time - if not this will bring the comming generation to ask you why did you kill their country and their dreams.
Fahamu (Oxford)
20 March 2009
Following the assassinations on 1 March of Guinea-Bissau's President João 'Nino' Vieira and military chief General Batista Tagmé Na Wai, the Goree Institute's Waly Ndiaye analyses some of the underlying causes of the country's troubled history since its independence in 1974, and asks whether the deaths of these two men - whose personal rivalry helped tear apart political life - have ...
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The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau
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