Thema Zanobi

Age: 27

Summary: journalist and wife of Guinea-Bissauan deputy foreign minister Oumar Zanobi who made international headlines in 2005 when she had witnessed her husband's assassination attempt during President Joao Bernardo Vieira's presidential inauguration in one of the notorious incidents to plagued the country's corrupted government.

Cause of Death: Bacterial meningitis

Born: March 10, 1981

Died: March 12, 2008

Location: Bissau, Guinea-Bissau