AN African president was killed today as civil war threatened to engulf his country.
AN African president was killed today as civil war threatened to engulf his country.
President Joao Bernardo Vieira of the west African state of Guinea-Bissau was killed by rebel soldiers just hours after his rival, armed forces chief of staff General Batiste Tagme na Waie, was murdered at his headquarters.
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