Day 4

FEBRUARY | 2024

Guinea-Bissau

PRAYER FOR THIS COUNTRY

A West African country with a lot of potential for petroleum, granite, and other minerals, Guinea-Bissau languishes in utter poverty. They solely depend on exporting cashew nuts and other agricultural produce. Child trafficking is rampant in this country. Muslim girls face extreme sexual exploitation through servitude and Muslim boys for forced labor. These devious trafficking gangs use the ruse of religious education and combine it with a job opportunity. Many families in extreme poverty also sell their youngest children to traffickers. The lack of qualified leaders who can work the economic supply chains in Guinea-Bissau is responsible for this tragic situation. 

Pray for God’s Children in the diaspora to return to their roots and set up quality educational systems to raise a new generation of highly educated youth in Guinea-Bissau (The Bible, Proverbs 13:13).

Lord, tear down every protective shield erected by human traffickers and corrupt law enforcement officials and level it to its foundation. When these shields fall, traffickers and corrupt officials will know You are the Lord (The Bible, Ezekiel 13:14).

MORE ABOUT THIS COUNTRY

Guinea-Bissau is one of the world’s poorest countries. It relies on revenues from raising a cashew crop to feed most families, and its economy depends greatly on foreign aid. Umaro Sissoco Embalo is the President of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau since 27 February 2020. Nuno Gomes Nabiam is the Prime Minister since 28 February 2020. Outside of the agricultural sector, the government struggles to pay its workers. There are suspicions that the country aids the Latin American cocaine trade as the narcotic reaches Europe. Freedom of religion exists in Guinea-Bissau; however, an animistic Islam dominates the greater culture, particularly in the north and east. Christianity sees greater success in the south and coastal regions. The country has the sixth highest mortality rate in the world. Illicit drug trafficking has grown almost unchecked, as the government has no coast guard, police have no cars available, and the navy has no boats for patrolling the North Atlantic shores.

CHIEF OF STATE
President Umaro Sissoco Embaló
HEAD OF GOV.
PM Nuno Gomes Nabiam
POPULATION
1,874,303
CHRISTIANS
11.5%
EVANGLICAL CHRISTIANS
1.8%
DOMINANT RELIGION
Islam
PERSECUTION RANKING
Not Ranked
REFUGEES
8,807
LIFE EXPECTANCY
54.27 yrs
LITERACY RATE
55.3%
POPULATION BELOW POVERTY LINE
Unknown