Guinea Bissau

The assassinations of President João Bernardo Vieira and military chief General Batista Tagmé Na Wai, although regrettable and worthy of reproach, may be the final episode in the ‘battle of the Mandjua’ that has raged since June 1998, (on the eve of the publication of a report by the ‘independent

On 1 March 2008, a bomb exploded at the army headquarters in Bissau, killing military chief General Tagme Na Wai. The conflict between the general and President Nino Vieira had at this point reached its apogee.