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Impoverished African country is magnet for cocaine smugglers
Topix - Sunday, June 08, 2008
p>F ilipe Dju sat grim-faced on the tangled roots of a mangrove tree, a padlocked chain around his ankle tethering him to four other recovering cocaine addicts. ... more
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ECOWAS telecom market upbeat as Abuja hosts business leaders
Topix - Sunday, June 08, 2008
p>ABUJA, Nigeria's capital city would for the first time host telecommunications experts, operators, equipment manufacturers and vendors in a two-day conference and exhibition at the International Conference ... ... more
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Guinea-Bissau: Experimental Theater Group
Topix - Monday, June 02, 2008
p>"Guinea-Bissau is a sui generis country, because people's talents are in the most unexpected fields. ... more
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Guinea-Bissau: Experimental Theater Group
Global Voices Online - Saturday, May 31, 2008
p>“Guinea-Bissau is a sui generis country, because people's talents are in the most unexpected fields. Theater is one of them. Here is our word of encouragement to the Bissau Experimental Theater group, established in 2005″, Jorge Rosmaninho [pt] congratulates the group for establishing itself and hopes for its... more
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Cashew: Processing only way for W.A. to cash in
Topix - Saturday, May 31, 2008
p>Cashew, originally grown in much of West Africa for reforestation and to prevent soil erosion, continues cultivating export and earnings potential for the region. ... more
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Macau: The 1st Lusofonia Games will be held between 7-15 October 2006 in Macau
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p> Timor Online writes about the 1st Lusofonia Games to be held between 7-15 October 2006 in Macau. Portuguese speaking countries and regions will compete for glories in the sports of football, futsal, beach volleyball, volleyball, basketball, taekwondo, table tennis and athletics. Apart from exciting... more
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Africa: Google in Africa
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>N'cho Blog writes about Google's plan to expand into Lusophone Africa , “Google is planning to invest in Portugal and use it as a way into Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe… ... more
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Guinea-Bissau: Former PM seeks asylum after accusing the nation's president of murder
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>Assata Speaks reports that Guinea-Bissau's interior minister had issued an arrest warrant for former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. earlier Wednesday. The arrest order followed allegations by Gomes that President Joao Bernardo Vieira was behind the assassination of an ex-military commander last week. Gomes sought asylum at the... more
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Guinea-Bissau: The last years of Portuguese rule
Global Voices Online - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>“The Diário da Guiné [Guinea Diary], by our mate Antonio Abreu, talks about everything, or nearly everything, that happened in those terrible years of 72 to 74, the last years of Portuguese sovereignty in Guinea”. Luis Graça [pt] recommends the book to anyone who is interested... more
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EU seeks ways to deploy more helicopters
Topix - Thursday, May 29, 2008
p>European Union defence ministers agreed Monday to modernize their helicopters in order to meet some of the shortfalls facing the bloc's peace-keeping missions around the world. ... more
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Africa's first narco-state
Topix - Tuesday, May 27, 2008
p>Over the past 18 months, I've read numerous articles on how Guinea-Bissau is becoming the first narco-state in Africa. ... more
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WHO Reports Cholera Outbreak
allAfrica.com - Monday, May 26, 2008
n outbreak of cholera in a remote fishing village in southeastern Guinea Bissau has killed two people and infected 53 the World Health Organization (WHO) ... more
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Government assumes control of Guine Telecom and Guinetel
Topix - Sunday, May 25, 2008
p> The government of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa has taken management control of national fixed line operator Guine Telecom and its mobile arm Guinetel, amid accusations that Portugal Telecom has effectively ... via TeleGeography CommsUpdate ... more
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Topix - Sunday, May 25, 2008
p>The President of the ECOWAS Commission, Dr Mohamed Ibn C hambas, Wednesday praised civil society organisations for their role in the ongo i ng campaign to achieve the level of ratification required to make the ... ... more
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Int'l community offers more condolences, aid for China earthquake
Topix - Sunday, May 25, 2008
p>More countries and international organizations have, by various means, offered their condolences and aid in the wake of the deadly earthquake in southwestern China. ... more
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Route of Evil
Topix - Sunday, May 25, 2008
p>Video The tiny West African country Guinea-Bissau has become the center for Columbia cartel cocaine shipments heading to Europe. ... more
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It's official: Portuguese spellings to match Brazil
Topix - Saturday, May 17, 2008
p> Lawmakers on Friday adopted a widely contested standardization of Portuguese that will require hundreds of words to be spelled the Brazilian way. via Arizona Republic ... more
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Guesses for an extraordinary decade
Topix - Thursday, May 15, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"It would be a very bad thing if it lasted. Already there are some signs of it getting less. When it will entirely cease is difficult to say, but I think progressively it'll get less and less." Predictions are a tricky business, and experts who made... more
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FG tasks stakeholders on Cashew dev
Topix - Tuesday, May 13, 2008
p> ABUJA_ AS part of moves to move from over dependence on oil to the non_oil sector in developing the nation's economy, the Federal Government on Tuesday urged stakeholders in cashew industry to develop ... via Vanguard ... more
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Paco: Drug War Blowback in Argentina
Topix - Sunday, May 11, 2008
p> "Paco", a cheap and addictive form of cocaine, became widely known after Argentina's financial collapse. via Guerrillanews.com ... more
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