Guinea Bissau: Recent Assassinations Underscore Urgent Need for Reform, Says Ban

2 April 2009

Last month's assassinations of Guinea-Bissau's president and his chief of staff have highlighted the need for the West African nation's justice, defence and security sectors to be reformed, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon says in a new report.

President João Bernardo Vieira and his Chief of General Staff, General Batista Tagme Na Waie, were killed in early March.

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