Guinea-Bissau

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• UN climate debt swap is 'fundamentally unjust', say development agencies

  Guardian Professional, 21 Oct 2014: A proposal offering small island states debt relief to pay for climate change adaptation merges legitimate and illegitimate debt, writes Karl Mathiesen

• China's red furniture craze fuelling illegal logging in Guinea-Bissau

  23 Jul 2014: Appetite for African rosewood has driven a surge in illegal deforestation that threatens to destabilise local communities

• Mozambique: Africa's new narco-state?

  22 Apr 2014: Some West African nations have long been trafficking hubs for Colombian cocaine bound for Europe. Now, it's coming ashore in Mozambique, alongside heroin and mandrax. Rebecca Meeson-Frizelle reports

• Ebola experts in west Africa battle to stem deadly outbreak – in pictures

  11 Apr 2014: Medical experts in Guinea, west Africa, are battling to contain an outbreak of Ebola, one of the world's deadliest viruses

• Guinea-Bissau bottom in index of commitment to tackling hunger

  11 Apr 2013: Index measures political commitment to tackling hunger and undernutrition in 45 countries, with Guatemala ranked first

• How to predict a coup

  25 Jan 2013:

  After successfully anticipating events in Mali and Guinea-Bissau last year, what does the scientific crystal ball have in store next, asks Tom Murphy

• Guinea-Bissau: past, present and future – in pictures

  Gallery (14 pictures), 26 Nov 2012:

  Reuters photographer Joe Penney depicts life in Guinea-Bissau and explores the legacy of years of conflict on this tiny West African country, from the fading symbols of its former Portuguese rulers, to the plight of those who fought for independence, and the impact that years of war have had on the current generation

• Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau - picture of the day

  Picture, 20 Nov 2012:

  A photographic highlight selected by the picture desk. Joe Penney's portrait of a struggling businessman in a troubled country

• Guinea-Bissau's dwindling cashew nut exports leave farmers facing hardship

  23 Aug 2012: Stock left unsold as India, traditionally the top buyer, increases domestic production and political uncertainty deters others

• Boundaries of Casamance remain blurred after 30 years of conflict

  19 Jun 2012: A pocket of land between Guinea-Bissau, Senegal and Gambia has played host to one of contemporary Africa's longest wars

• Guinea-Bissau coup suspected as military seizes parts of capital

  13 Apr 2012:

  Witnesses report explosions in Bissau as troops seal city centre and fire on prime minister Carlos Gomes Junior's residence

• Guinea-Bissau votes to elect president but military overthrow feared

  19 Mar 2012:

  Former military intelligence chief shot dead immediately after poll in country where a democratically elected head of state has never finished a term

• Malam Bacai Sanhá obituary

  16 Jan 2012: President of Guinea-Bissau and a stalwart of his country's struggle for liberation

• Guinea-Bissau president dies in Paris

  9 Jan 2012: Malam Bacai Sanha dies following medical treatment in France and Senegal, two years after being elected president

• Navy chief held in Guinea-Bissau after alleged coup attempt

  3 Jan 2012: Arrest of rear-admiral accused of drug-trafficking links may help bring stability to west African nation, analyst says

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