[East African] Guinea Bissau's former prime minister Manuel Saturnino da Costa has died following weeks of hospitalisation, his family announced on Wednesday.

[Egypt Online] President Abdel Fattah El Sisi received on Thursday President of Guinea Bissau Umaro Sissoco Embaló, said presidential spokesman Bassam Radi.

[The Point] Senegal has offered 20,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine to The Gambia and Guinea Bissau as a show of solidarity with its West African neighbors, Senegalese media reported on Monday.

[Egypt Online] President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has praised historic ties between Egypt and Guinea-Bissau, reaffirming Cairo's backing for the African country in all fields to realize its people's development aspirations.

[East African] Authorities in Guinea Bissau on Monday confirmed the circulation of the coronavirus variants first reported in the UK and South Africa.

[WHO] The four leading international health and humanitarian organizations announced today the establishment of a global Ebola vaccine stockpile to ensure outbreak response.