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Kumba Yala Applies to Run for President Despite Ban
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ormer president Kumba Yala has formally applied to run in Guinea Bissau's presidential elections next June, shrugging aside the fact he was banned from politics following his overthrow in ... more
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Annan Directs Envoy to Facilitate Political Dialogue Ahead of Elections in Guinea-Bissau
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
orried by growing tensions in Guinea-Bissau ahead of presidential elections just two months away, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today directed his envoy, João Bernardo Honwana, to promote and facilitate dialogue between all political actors in the West African country in order to defuse pressures and build a more conducive... more
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Nino Vieira Says He Will Contest Presidential Election
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ormer president Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira has announced plans to contest the 19 June presidential election in Guinea-Bissau, pitting himself against another controversial former head of state, Kumba ... more
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Reconciliation Process Should Be Example - Guinea-Bissauan Premier
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he visiting Guinea-Bissauan Prime-Minister, Carlos Gomes Junior, considered today in Luanda, that the national reconciliation process, that is taking place in Angola "should be followed by other African ... more
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Premier Defends Alliances With Co-Operation Partners
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ngola's Prime Minister Fernando da Piedade Dias dos Santos defended Thursday in Luanda, the establishment of alliances and improvement of co-operation, at all levels, with Angola's international co-operation ... more
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Former Mozambican President Appointed UN Special Envoy for Guinea-Bissau
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ormer President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique has been appointed Secretary-General Kofi Annan's Special Envoy to promote "peaceful and credible" elections in June in Guinea-Bissau, a United Nations spokesman said ... more
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Kofi Annan Appoints Chissano Envoy to Guinea-Bissau
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
nited Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appointed former Mozambican President Joaquim Chissano as his special envoy to the troubled west African state of Guinea- ... more
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EU Sends 100 Observers to Monitor Presidential Election
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he European Union (EU) announced on Friday that it would send 100 observers to monitor Guinea-Bissau's 19 June presidential election, stressing that some of them would remain in the country for up to three months if a second round run-off vote were held in ... more
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Guinea-Bissau: Annan Urges All Candidates to Accept Election Results
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
nited Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan today welcomed the peaceful conduct of presidential elections in Guinea-Bissau, called on all segments of society to refrain from any statement or action that could provoke tensions and urged all candidates to accept the ... more
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Prime Minister Says He Doesn't Recognise New President But Won't Resign
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
uinea-Bissau's Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior has said he doesn't recognise newly-elected president, Joao Bernardo Vieira, but will remain in the government nonetheless, prompting many observers to wonder how the political cohabitation will ... more
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Nigeria Pledges Development Assistance to Guinea Bissau
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
igeria has pledged to assist Guinea Bissau toward consolidating its democracy and sustained ... more
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Angola Hopeful About Political Stability in Guinea-Bissau
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he first deputy Speaker of the Angolan National Assembly, João Lourenço, who attended the formal swearing-in ceremony of João Bernardo Nino Vieira for the post of President of Guinea-Bissau, said on Sunday here that he is hopeful about the political stability in the West African ... more
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Annan Congratulates Guinea-Bissau As Newly Elected President is Sworn in
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ssuring the people of Guinea-Bissau of continued United Nations assistance, Secretary-General Kofi Annan has congratulated President João Bernardo Vieira on his inauguration as head of the West African country emerging from periods of instability since its independence from Portugal some 30 years ... more
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Interview With Prime Minister Aristides Gomes
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
uinea Bissau's new Prime Minister Aristides Gomes, who has been in office for six months, speaks to IRIN about his hopes of improving living conditions and restoring investor confidence in a country long blighted by conflict and ... more
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Landmines, the Silent Sentries All Fear
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he teenage boy sitting on the roadside fears the rebels will come for him next because they know his house, his village. He fears they could drag him off as they dragged away and executed his father when he came to the aid of victims of a landmine ... more
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Efforts to Build Stability Must 'Stay the Course' - Annan
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he international community must "persevere and stay the course" in helping Guinea-Bissau regain stability despite the slow progress in reconciliation that has kept donors wary and exacerbated economic hardship, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report released ... more
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Trying to Work a Miracle
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
shocked Paulo Mendes surveyed the wreck of his office. Burnt files, broken cabinets, ripped documents were strewn across the yard. Every computer, fax and telephone had been stolen. The national programme against AIDS in Guinea-Bissau was virtually wiped ... more
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Capital Declared Safe From Mines
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
fficials in Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday declared the once embattled nation's capital mine-free and said citizens were safe to roam anywhere in the ... more
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Country Gaining Ground But Still At Risk of Major Setbacks, Says Annan
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
uinea-Bissau has made some progress towards political reconciliation, but the West African country remains so poor and enduring tensions are still strong enough that the risk of a major setback is ever-present, less than a decade after the end of a bitter civil war, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a... more
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Annan Selects Nigerian to Serve As Head of UN Peacebuilding Office
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ecretary-General Kofi Annan announced today that he plans to appoint Nigeria's Shola Omoregie as his new representative in Guinea-Bissau and as head of the United Nations Peacebuilding Support Office to the West African country ... more
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