Bissau, Guinea Bissau

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Guinea Bissau ALERT: Radio stations ordered to close down

Sunday, March 08, 2009

Guinea Bissau’s privately-owned radio stations were on March 2, 2009 ordered by the country’s authorities to cease broadcasting. Media Foundation...

GUINEA-BISSAU-SENEGAL: Assassinations breed uncertainty in neighbouring Casamance

Friday, March 06, 2009

The recent assassinations of Guinea-Bissau’s president and army chief have cast a deep uncertainty over Senegal’s restive Casamance region, where a...

GUINEA-BISSAU: Military reform more important than ever

Friday, March 06, 2009

Reforming Guinea-Bissau’s army and police units is now more pressing than ever to avoid instability say UN officials and government representatives. ...

6 Guinea-Bissau troops arrested in attempted coup

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/11/24/africa/AF-Guinea-Bissau-Attack.php

Monday, November 24, 2008

Guinea-Bissau's government says six soldiers have been arrested in the West African country a day after armed men attacked the president's...

Senegal troops for Bissau border

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7745354.stm

Monday, November 24, 2008

Senegal is sending troop reinforcements to the border with Guinea-Bissau, after the weekend attack on its President Joao Bernardo Vieira. Senegal's...

Guinea-Bissau's president's home under fire

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7744466.stm

Sunday, November 23, 2008

A gun attack on the presidential home in Guinea-Bissau has left one person dead and several injured, hours after election results were announced. A...

Guinea-Bissau: High hopes for new government

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=81614

Saturday, November 22, 2008

The African Party for the Independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde or PAIGC has won a majority in Guinea-Bissau’s parliamentary elections, which...

Guinea-Bissau: Cholera contained but source still unknown

http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=81560

Thursday, November 20, 2008

After more than six months of battling cholera in Guinea-Bissau the epidemic is now under control health officials say, though they admit they have...

GUINEA-BISSAU: Cautious optimism ahead of parliamentary poll

Saturday, November 15, 2008

UN and other international observers say they are cautiously optimistic ahead of Guinea-Bissau’s parliamentary elections set for 16 November, while...

Stop child trafficking: one of the main objectives of UNICEF in Guinea Bissau

Thursday, October 23, 2008

According to studies carried out in 2003 in Senegal, most of the 120,000 children begging in the street of Dakar (Senegal) were from Guinea Bissau. ...