Tuesday, October 06, 2015

Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Featured on TVC Satellite News Network: 'Guinea-Bissau Experiencing Continued Factional Problems'
Watch this interview with Abayomi Azikiwe, editor of the Pan-African News Wire, over TVC satellite news network based in Lagos, Nigeria. Azikiwe discusses the current political crisis in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau.

To view the interview just click on the website below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-zuL_a0_tw&feature=youtu.be

The broadcast took place on Monday Oct. 5, 2015 and ran live over the television station.

Guinea-Bissau, a former Portuguese colony, is an underdeveloped state that was born in the armed struggle led by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde PAIGC). This liberation movement was led by Amilcar Cabral, an engineer and theoritician.

Since the 1973, the PAIGC has experienced factional problems with the assassination of Cabral and the ascendancy of Luiz Cabral, who was overthrown by the military wing of the party in 1980.

A recent coup in 2012 brought about turmoil inside the country.

These and other issues are discussed in the TVC interview.

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