Obituaries
Jock Smith, law partner of Johnnie Cochran, dies at 63; Malam Bacai Sanha, president of Guinea-Bissau, dies at 64
Jan. 10, 2012
PASSINGS: Jock Smith, Malam Bacai Sanha
World & Nation
The unstable nation, along with other West African countries, makes an ideal stop for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe.
Sept. 16, 2014
World Now
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April 12, 2012
An extended medical trip for Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, the latest in a long line of leaders in Africa to travel overseas for medical treatment, has prompted a rash of online fake news stories proclaiming “Buhari is dead.”
Feb. 20, 2017
Guinea Bissau: Cocaine traffic hub
Nov. 16, 2009
As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes’ job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African country, with its starry array of remote islands, as a transit point for drug shipments bound for Europe.
Travel & Experiences
It doesn’t seem possible to be a full-time professor of anesthesia and medicine at the USC School of Dentistry and travel for business 100 days a year.
June 3, 2006
Guinea-Bissau’s military leaders named businessman Henrique Rosa to take over as interim president and lead the impoverished former Portuguese colony to elections.
Sept. 24, 2003
Pakistan’s once-posh ski resort awaits a post-Taliban lift
Feb. 14, 2013