Flag Guinea Bissau

Flag Guinea Bissau 1500*900mm Flag Stock Code: gunbil
			stock status	$16.50 Prices include  GST

Flag Guinea Bissau 900*600mm Flag Stock Code: gunbim
			stock status	$15.95 Prices include  GST

Handwaver Guinea Bissau 450x300 Flag Stock Code: gunbihw01
		Pack 01 Pack 03 Pack 12	stock status	$11.55 Prices include  GST

Desk Flag Guinea Bissau 150x100 Flag Stock Code: gunbidf01
		Pack 01 Pack 03 Pack 12	stock status	$5.61 Prices include  GST

Guinea Bissau Description & General Information

	Since independence from Portugal in 1974, Guinea-Bissau has experienced considerable political and military upheaval. In 1980, a military coup established authoritarian dictator Joao Bernardo 'Nino' VIEIRA as president. Despite setting a path to a market economy and multiparty system, VIEIRA's regime was characterized by the suppression of political opposition and the purging of political rivals. Several coup attempts through the 1980s and early 1990s failed to unseat him and in 1994 VIEIRA was elected president in the country's first free elections. A military mutiny and resulting civil war in 1998 eventually led to VIEIRA's ouster in May 1999. In February 2000, a transitional government turned over power to opposition leader Kumba YALA after he was elected president in transparent polling. In September 2003, after only three years in office, YALA was ousted by the military in a bloodless coup and businessman Henrique ROSA was sworn in as interim President. In August 2005 former President VIEIRA was re-elected President in the second round of presidential polling. Since formally assuming office in October 2005, Vieira has pledged to pursue economic development and national reconciliation.
	two equal horizontal bands of yellow (top) and green with a vertical red band on the hoist side; there is a black five-pointed star centered in the red band; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia
	Bissau
	republic, multiparty since mid-1991