Africa Monitor Intelligence

Guinea-Bissau: Political and Military Tensions On the Rise

The dragging of the political crisis has contributed to an even greater weakening of state institutions, increasing the permeability of the country to phenomena such as drug trafficking (AM 1195) and trafficking in rare woods (AM 1194). In these cases, smuggling is ensured by customs-level corruption, controlled by the military, operating independently of the Government, with the complicity of senior Armed Forces officials. Organized by international traffickers, the operations also involve top government officials who charge commissions which, in the case of timber, reach 50% of the total paid by the importer. READ MORE