The director-general of the WHO said a U.S.-funded study of the hepatitis B vaccine in Guinea-Bissau would be “unethical” if ...

African scientists have criticised a study of hepatitis B virus birth dose vaccination as being unethical. Gilbert Nakweya reports.

Officials at the US Department of Health and Human Services, which awarded funding for the controversial study, say it will proceed as planned. Public-health authorities in Guinea-Bissau say that they ...

BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau (AP) — Guinea-Bissau's military junta has set a date for new elections following its takeover late last year, according to a statement by the junta's leader on Wednesday. In a ...

A U.S.-backed study set to examine the overall health effects of hepatitis B vaccine dose timing on some 14,000 infants in the West African country of Guinea-Bissau has raised ethics concerns among ...

A Nigerian law firm has filed a case at the ECOWAS Community Court of Justice seeking the release of Domingos Simões Pereira, Guinea-Bissau’s opposition leader and former parliamentary speaker, along ...

Then-President Umaro Sissoco Embalo casts his votes at a polling station during presidential and legislative elections in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 23, 2025 (Presidency of the Republic of ...

BISSAU, Dec 10 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's military junta adopted a 12-month transitional charter that bars the interim president and prime minister from running in the next elections, two weeks after ...

In this photo taken from video provided by TGB Guinea-Bissau, Guinea-Bissau's junta leader Gen. Horta Inta-A, takes an oath of office in Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, Nov. 27, 2025 Passenger who died on ...

Following a military coup in Guinea-Bissau last week, the country’s electoral commission said Tuesday that armed men had destroyed most of the vote count from the country’s election, and that it would ...