Amílcar Lopes da Costa Cabral was born on September 12, 1924 in the town of Bafata in Portuguese Guinea, wedged between what was then French Guinea and the French colony of Senegal, in West Africa.

Despite PAIGC winning the most seats in the last parliamentary elections, Embalo refused to appoint Simoes Pereira as prime ...

Timor Leste, or East Timor, is a Southeast Asian nation that occupies half of the island of Timor and is almost the size of ...

He defended his press freedom record. “In the PALOP [Portuguese-speaking African] countries, Guinea-Bissau is the only country where a journalist insults the President of the Republic and goes to ...

Francis will travel 20,390 miles by air during his Sept. 2-13 visit to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Singapore, ...

Pope Francis arrived on Friday evening from Indonesia in Papua New Guinea, a country rich in natural resources, including gold, copper, nickel, oil, and gas. However, according to OXFAM, it has ...

The 87-year-old left Papua New Guinea's capital Port Moresby just after midday local time (0200 GMT) and arrives in East ...

Francis will become the first pope to visit the Catholic-majority country since independence in 2002. Read more at ...

Approximately 35,000 Catholics from across Papua New Guinea and Oceania came together at the venue, united in their faith and buoyed by the uplifting chants of the Port Moresby Catholic choir’s ...

Pope Francis was joined by more than 10,000 people for a youth festival held at Sir John Guise Stadium in Port Moresby on the final day of his apostolic visit to Papua New Guinea (PNG), reminding ...