A big congratulations to Siphiwe Baleka for facilitating this. Guinea Bissau Grants Citizenship to African Diaspora - January 16, Bissau - The Council of Ministers of the Republic of Guinea Bissau today approved the citizenship of nine Afro Descendants, all of them Balanta descendants and members of the Balanta B’urassa History and Genealogy Society In America, founded by its President Siphiwe Baleka. The decision of the Council of Ministers comes after President Baleka raised the issue at the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights 83rd Ordinary Session in October. “It took three years, but Guinea Bissau has finally taken this important step in receiving her long lost children who were taken as prisoner of war and enslaved in the Americas,” said President Baleka. “ Guinea Bissau has now made a concrete contribution at the start of the African Union’s themed year 2025, ‘Justice for African people and people of African Descent through reparations.’ This is the internal reparations, the healing, that African governments are responsible for.’” President Baleka is now helping all members of the African Diaspora obtain citizenship as a chief advocate of their Right to Return and organizing the African Diaspora Assembly’s election for Provisional 6th Region representatives who will bring this issue to the African Union’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) at a Rountable in May being organized by the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights (ACHPR). https://www.balanta.org/news/guinea-bissau-grants-citizenship-to-african-diaspora