The Guinea-Bissau Civil War was fought from 7 June 1998 to 10 May 1999 and was triggered by an attempted coup d'état against the government of President João Bernardo Vieira led by Brigadier-General Ansumane Mané. Government forces, backed by neighbouring states, clashed with the coup leaders who had quickly gained almost total control over the country's armed forces.
An abandoned T-55 from the civil war in Bissau, 2003
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (1980–1999)
The war-damaged and abandoned former presidential palace in the capital, Bissau
João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was a Bissau-Guinean politician who served as President of Guinea-Bissau from 1980 to 1999, except for a three-day period in May 1984, and from 2005 until his assassination in 2009.
Vieira in 2007
Vieira in December 2005
Vieira and others African Heads of State at the Peace Flame Ceremony in Bouaké (Ivory Coast)