thepoint.gm - Coups and counter-coups have so wobbled Guinea-Bissau that its leaders come and go, leaving the country in a fragile state. The incumbent president Joao Bernardo Vieira, for instance, has ruled intermittently since 1980. Just when the country seems to be settling down politically, there is now a reported gun attack on the presidential home in the wake of the parliamentary election that was held last weekend. The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde (PAIGC), the...» view full story