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AFRICA/MOROCCO - West Africa and the Caribbean principal routes for...
Topix - Friday, November 09, 2007
p> West Africa is one of two principal routes used by drug traffickers to export South American cocaine to Europe. via Fides News ... more
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Request for Applications for Grants to Deal with Landmines, Explosive ...
Topix - Friday, November 09, 2007
p> The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs issued a fifth "Request for Applications" for Federal grants for projects reducing the ... via State Department ... more
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Continent turning the corner, say sages
Topix - Wednesday, November 07, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"When I was the head of the mediation team in the DRC for instance, there was no funding for such a mission, and I had to pay the mediation team from my pockets" Two of Africa's most respected elder statesmen, Botswana's former president Ketumile Masire and... more
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Nearly 50 migrants die on boat en route to Europe
Topix - Tuesday, November 06, 2007
p> A patrol boat has rescued nearly 100 migrants after they spent three weeks at sea off the coast of West Africa. via WLOX-TV Biloxi ... more
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China Mobile eyes MTN stake
Topix - Monday, November 05, 2007
p> China's largest cellular operator, state owned China Mobile, is close to striking a deal which will see it take a stake in pan-African mobile group MTN, according to XFN-Asia which cites a report from Shanghai ... via TeleGeography CommsUpdate ... more
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Cocaine Could Destabilize Guinea-Bissau
Topix - Saturday, November 03, 2007
p> By TODD PITMAN : Associated Press Writer Nov 3, 2007 : 3:28 am ET Cocaine trafficking could become the biggest source of income in impoverished Guinea-Bissau, dwarfing all other economic sectors combined, a top ... via HeraldSun.com ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Paying the price for disclosing their HIV status
Topix - Friday, November 02, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"My oldest son gets into fights on the soccer field almost every day because his team-mates make comments about me and say that he's got AIDS too. This isn't true. My children are healthy" If they could go back in time, perhaps they would do things... more
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UN: Cocaine influx could destabilize Guinea-Bissau
Topix - Thursday, November 01, 2007
p> Cocaine trafficking could become the biggest source of income in impoverished Guinea-Bissau, dwarfing all other economic sectors combined, a top U.N official said Thursday, adding the influx of drug money could ... via PR-inside.com ... more
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Victimized Communities in Favor of Seeking Forgiveness
Topix - Wednesday, October 31, 2007
p> ' Victimized communities agree that the act of seeking intergroup forgiveness is key in facilitating the process of reconciliation. via Huliq.com ... more
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Angola: Guinea Bissau's Minister Assesses Reconstruction in Benguela
Topix - Tuesday, October 30, 2007
p> The Public Works minister of Guinea Bissau, Rui Arajo Gomes, carried out last Wednesday and Thursday a two-day work visit to Benguela Province, meant to assess the government's efforts focussed on national ... via AllAfrica.com ... more
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AFRICA - Africa rejoices for two new African Cardinals: the Archbishops of Dakar and Nairobi
Topix - Sunday, October 28, 2007
p> "I received the news of my appointment as Cardinal, as a call, a duty, to serve the Lord more and better" said Archbishop Theodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar in Senegal and President of the Bishops' Conference of ... via Fides News ... more
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Banco Comercial Portugues Says It Will Evaluate BPI's Unsolicited Offer
Topix - Friday, October 26, 2007
p> Banco Comercial Portugues SA, Portugal's biggest publicly traded bank, said it will consider an unsolicited 11.8 billion-euro offer from Banco BPI SA, after its own bid for the smaller rival failed in May. via Bloomberg.com ... more
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For Victory in Leone Stars/Guinea Bissau Encounter - Nigerian Coach Gives Tip
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
he Nigerian coach who recently visited Sierra Leone, James Peters, has given the national team, Leone Stars a tip to qualify for the group stages of the 2010 World Cup ... more
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Web Extra: Behind the Story
Topix - Wednesday, October 24, 2007
p> Guinea Bissau has hit the headlines recently, for all the wrong reasons -- reports of links to international cocaine cartels. via NPR ... more
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A Small Nation Tries to Tackle Big Drug Traffickers
Topix - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Any criminal knows that he won't even go to prison" Guinea Bissau has no prisons. View a slideshow of a detention center where criminals are held. via National Public Radio ... more
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Rewards and supervision cut child malaria deaths-study
Topix - Tuesday, October 23, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We have shown that quality of care in the paediatric ward ... depends not only on training and availability of drugs but also on financial incentives" Strictly enforcing Malaria treatment guidelines and paying hospital workers extra halved mortality from the disease in one children's hospital ward,... more
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Security Council Warns Drug Trafficking Undermines Stability
allAfrica.com - Monday, October 22, 2007
he UN Security Council has warned that Guinea Bissau is being "undermined" by prolific drug trafficking which is making the tiny country a threat to West Africa's ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Security Council warns drug trafficking undermines stability
Topix - Monday, October 22, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Observers contrast for example US support for Liberia, UK support for Sierra Leone and French support for Cote d'Ivoire." DAKAR, 22 October 2007 - The UN Security Council has warned that Guinea Bissau is being "undermined" by prolific drug trafficking which is making the tiny country... more
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The truth about BOJA Part 1
Topix - Monday, October 22, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Botlhogo-nkopa ba ba lwantshng puso ya ga John Vorster - radicals fighting the South African regime" An announcement appeared in the Government Gazette - probably read only by the people who write it - for the Botswana Journalists Association to 'show cause' why it should not... more
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Tajikistan: Evaluating Tajikistan's Reconstruction 10 Years After the Civil War's End
Topix - Sunday, October 21, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Because the international community was ready to assist. We organized several conferences on prison reform. But the request was only to 'give us money to repair the prisons.' But this is not the way the ICRC works; this is not the way of cooperation." It has... more
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