Seidi is a member of the former ruling PAIGC party, which leads the coalition that won a majority in legislative elections in June. That result halted President Umaro Sissoco Embalo's plans to ...

Domingos Simões Pereira, leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), insists Embaló must step down immediately. Pereira leads a coalition that actually won ...

This reflected the continuing instability of state institutions in a country that has seen numerous coups or attempted coups since 1980, and the resistance of the long-governing PAIGC party to the ...

The 48-year-old former army general won the elections under the Movement of Democratic Change, a party that in 2015 split off from the former liberation movement PAIGC (African Party for the ...

The strike—and subsequent massacre—helped start a war for independence led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), a Soviet-sponsored guerrilla movement.

1956 - Amilcar Cabral establishes the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). 1963-74 - PAIGC launches war of independence. 1973 - Amilcar Cabral assassinated.

Domingos Simoes Pereira, leader of the main opposition African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), is Embalo's main opponent. The PAIGC led a Marxist one-party regime in ...

Vaz and Pereira are both members of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC), which fought for independence from Portugal, won in 1974. The party, which has a slender ...

1956 - Amilcar Cabral, a native of Cape Verde, co-founds the African Party for Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) in Guinea-Bissau. 1960 - PAIGC-led liberation war begins against ...

She is the author of the book, Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963–1978 (2019). In collaboration with Tricontinental - Studies on National ...

1956 - Amilcar Cabral establishes the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). 1963-74 - PAIGC launches war of independence. 1973 - Amilcar Cabral assassinated.