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UN Sec-Gen Appeals for 'Utmost Restraint' After Killing of Navy Chief
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ecretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on the Government and political leaders of Guinea-Bissau to exercise utmost restraint and focus on development and reconciliation amid heightened tensions following the killing of the small West African country's former Navy ... more
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Indicted Former Prime Minister Seeks Refuge With UN
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
ess than a week after a previous head of Guinea-Bissau's navy was assassinated, a former prime minister has taken refuge at the United Nations compound in the capital, Bissau, after the government issued a warrant for his ... more
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Guinea Bissau President Overthrown
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
oldiers ousted the government of President Kumba Yalla of Guinea-Bissau yesterday, accusing him of violating the constitution of the tiny West African country which was a Portuguese ... more
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Coup Applauded By Politicians And Ordinary People
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
uinea-Bissau's new military leaders met on Monday with politicians, civil society representatives and religious leaders, many of whom congratulated coup leader General Verissimo Correia Seabra for removing the chaotic civilian government of ex-president Kumba ... more
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Guinea-Bissau Junta Set to Step Down
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
HE military junta, which ousted President Kumba Yala of Guinea-Bissau last Sunday, were yesterday billed to hand over power to an interim goverment. The coup leaders were to sign a transition pact in the presence of West African leaders, including President Olusegun Obasanjo and Senegalese President Abdoulaye ... more
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Army Admits That Four Soldiers Died in Border Clashes
allAfrica.com - Thursday, April 03, 2008
he head of the army in Guinea-Bissau admitted on Thursday that four soldiers were killed and 14 wounded in recent clashes on the Senegalese border with separatist rebels fighting for the independence of Senegal's Casamance ... more
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UN Funds Payment of Arrears to Army Mutineers
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
he United Nations has provided the government of Guinea-Bissau with US$2.2 million to pay salary arrears owed to mutinous soldiers who killed the head of the armed forces earlier this month, government officials said on ... more
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Fatal Fighting Reported in Border Region With Guinea-Bissau
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
uinea Bissau said Thursday that at least two of its soldiers had been killed near the border with Senegal amid fierce factional fighting between Casamance ... more
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Fighting Continues Along Border With Guinea-Bissau
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
lashes involving Senegalese separatists and Guinea Bissau troops entered a fourth day on Friday, forcing over a thousand people from their homes in the border ... more
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Some 4,500 Displaced By Clashes Between Separatists, Guinea-Bissau Troops
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ighting between Guinea Bissau troops and Senegalese separatists has forced more than 4,500 people to flee their homes in the past several days, humanitarian officials said on ... more
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Casamance, Bloody Legacy of the Colonial Division of the Continent
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
he fighting that has been going on for four days between army troops in Guinea-Bissau and Senegalese separatists from the Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) reopened an almost century-old ... more
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Clashes Leave Villagers in Guinea-Bissau Cut Off As Rebels Lay Fresh Mines
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ighting in the forests of Guinea Bissau near the border with Senegal has left many civilians in distress, their villages wholly cut off, Guinea Bissau military sources ... more
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Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: Stranded Villagers Could Be Out of Food
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
atholic missionary Sister Ruth has set off on a five-hour trek over river and ocean in a dugout canoe stocked with food and fuel for villagers utterly cut off by recent armed clashes and landmines in northern Guinea ... more
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Not Enough Aid Reaching Communities Stranded By Fighting With Senegalese Rebels
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
ighting and the planting of lethal landmines in the northwest of Guinea Bissau has isolated some 20,000 people who are struggling to survive on dwindling food reserves and occasional deliveries of food and medicines by ... more
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Offensive Will Continue Until Rebel Positions Destroyed - President
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
uinea Bissau troops will continue their offensive in the north until all the Senegalese rebel bases established there in the last month have been "destroyed", President Joao Bernardo Vieira told ... more
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UN Launches Emergency Appeal After Fighting in North
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
nited Nations agencies on Tuesday launched a joint appeal for over US $3.6 m to help some 20,000 people in northern Guinea Bissau made vulnerable by fighting between Guinea Bissau military and rebels from neighbouring ... more
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Guinea-Bissau Frustrates Entrepreneurs
Topix - Wednesday, April 02, 2008
p class="lede_quote">"For an entrepreneur to start up a business here, he really has to be an adventurer" Guinea-Bissau, like many African countries, is a difficult place to do business. via Voice of America ... more
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Social
Topix - Monday, March 31, 2008
p> The UN Secretary-General's Special Representative for Guin ea Bissau has welcomed announcement by Guinea-Bissau's President of the date of u pcoming legislative elections, but cautioned that the international ... via Panapress ... more
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It's not that we don't care, we just don't care enough...
Topix - Saturday, March 29, 2008
p> Like I said : Fifty-six per cent of Canadians do not support a boycott, while 7% were undecided or refused to answer, according to a poll by Ipsos Reid, which conducted the survey exclusively for Canwest News ... via KerPlonka! ... more
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Security Council Welcomes Announcement of Legislative Polls
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 27, 2008
he Security Council today welcomed this week's announcement that Guinea-Bissau will hold legislative elections in November and called on the Government of the impoverished West African country to both speed up its preparations for those polls and to continue its efforts to consolidate ... more
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