LEAD. Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database
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Guinea-Bissau

584 recorded engagements by Guinea-Bissau's heads of state, heads of government and foreign ministers, 1990–2025.

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584Engagements
583Visits
0Phone calls
1Video conferences
36Signed agreements
85Destination countries
23Officials recorded
235Multilateral summits

LEAD records 36 signed agreements for Guinea-Bissau; registered users can browse them in the Agreements register.

At a glance

Between 1990 and 2025, Guinea-Bissau's leaders recorded 584 engagements: 583 in-person visits, 0 phone calls and 1 video conferences. Activity peaked in 2022, with 61 engagements that year. The most frequent destination was Senegal (48 engagements), followed by Nigeria and United States of America. Diplomacy and Foreign Relations was the most common topic, present in 100% of engagements. 36 engagements produced a signed agreement, and 235 took place at multilateral summits. The most active official on record is Umaro Sissoco Embaló (Prime Minister), with 256 engagements between 2017 and 2025.

Activity by year

Every engagement recorded for Guinea-Bissau, 1990–2025. Hover a bar for the exact count.

1990: 7 engagements1991: 11 engagements1992: 5 engagements1993: 6 engagements1994: 1 engagement1995: 7 engagements1996: 9 engagements1997: 8 engagements1998: 8 engagements1999: 12 engagements2000: 10 engagements2001: 13 engagements2002: 13 engagements2003: 17 engagements2004: 10 engagements2005: 10 engagements2006: 14 engagements2007: 12 engagements2008: 15 engagements2009: 13 engagements2010: 27 engagements2011: 9 engagements2012: 7 engagements2013: 11 engagements2014: 13 engagements2015: 15 engagements2016: 12 engagements2017: 18 engagements2018: 3 engagements2019: 8 engagements2020: 16 engagements2021: 39 engagements2022: 61 engagements2023: 46 engagements2024: 47 engagements2025: 51 engagements19901995200020052010201520202025

Most-visited countries

  • Senegal48
  • Nigeria46
  • United States of America43
  • France31
  • Ivory Coast24
  • Ghana22
  • Gambia21
  • Portugal19
  • Libya17
  • Guinea16
  • Mauritania13
  • Angola13

Discussion topics

  • Diplomacy and Foreign Relations583
  • Regional Organizations and Multilateral Affairs241
  • Trade and Economic Relations62
  • Health1
  • Security and Defense1
  • Peace and Security1

Cite this profile

Ozturk, Y., Atabas, H., Guler, E., Duyar, B., & Yucel, R. (2026). Leaders' Visits & Agreements Database [Data set]. Africa Foundation. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22976211 [Guinea-Bissau country profile. Accessed 22 October 2026. https://lead-database.netlify.app/country/guinea-bissau.html]

Every part of the site quotes this same reference; other formats (MLA, Chicago, Harvard, BibTeX) are on the About page, which also describes the coding rules and sources. Figures here were generated from the dataset on 2026-10-22 and describe outbound engagements by Guinea-Bissau's own officials.