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New European agency to tackle cocaine trade
Topix - Monday, October 01, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Clearly we will be looking to work with our American colleagues at trying to intervene in that environment" New European agency to tackle cocaine trade By Axel Bugge LISBON - Seven west European countries on Sunday launched an agency to tackle the ever-changing routes whereby South... more
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Past 10 Years
Topix - Sunday, September 30, 2007
p> Richard Ashby could get up to 10 years in prison or be dismissed from the Marines Guinea-Bissau's President Vieira flees as rebels take the capital Annan expresses deep dismay at the resumption of fighting and ... via Turkish Daily News ... more
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West African Nations Voice Appreciation for UN's Help in Fostering Stability
Topix - Saturday, September 29, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We will soon engage in national consultations on the question and the conclusions should constitute a solid basis for the creation and functioning of this body" Leaders from West African countries working to consolidate peace and build democratic institutions today voiced appreciation for the support of... more
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Africa: Brain Drain Still Bleeding Ex-Colonies Dry
Topix - Saturday, September 29, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"IPAD ends up not having any concrete data about it" The violence, corruption and generalised poverty marring more than three decades of independence in Portugal's five former colonies in Africa, and five years of independence in East Timor, have been the main ... via AllAfrica.com... more
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Orange starts mobile operations in Africa
Topix - Thursday, September 27, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Orange Bissau is engaged in modernising the telecommunications sector" France Telecom's mobile business Orange started operations in the poor West African country of Guinea-Bissau on Friday, becoming the small nation's third cellphone operator. via The Star ... more
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Crime-stricken Bissau may explode within months-UN
Topix - Wednesday, September 26, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Guinea Bissau is going to explode unless we do something ... between now and the end of the year" Guinea-Bissau could "explode" within months unless the international community takes strong steps to stop Latin American drug cartels overrunning the poor West African state, a U.N. official... more
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Report: Singapore most business-friendly 0:45PM ET
Topix - Wednesday, September 26, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Equity returns are highest in countries that are reforming the most. With emerging markets aggressively improving their business regulations, there has hardly been a better time to invest." For the second year in a row, Singapore was ranked the world's easiest place to do business, followed... more
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International health at home: learning from low-income countries--secondary publication.
Topix - Tuesday, September 25, 2007
p> International health at home: learning from low-income countries--secondary publication. via Polio and Post-Polio News ... more
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Mauritius tops Africa governance index
Topix - Tuesday, September 25, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. Africans are setting benchmarks not only for their own continent, but for the world" Mauritius is the best run country in Africa and Somalia is the... more
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Premier earnings plummet by 23m
Topix - Saturday, September 22, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The jury is still out but we are not massively optimistic" PREMIER Oil, the Edinburgh-registered oil and gas explorer, saw a sharp downturn in profits over the first half of the year as the cost of unsuccessful drilling took its toll. via Scotsman.com ... more
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Tracing ancestry through DNA
Topix - Thursday, September 20, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"OK, that would be interesting" My family tree is a tangle of secrets, speculation and scandal. My multiracial, interfaith bloodline was formed by one forbidden liaison after another. via IndyStar.com ... more
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HIV-2 immune response may lead to vaccines
Topix - Tuesday, September 18, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The knowledge that HIV-positive patients who mount a Gag-specific T cell response can control viral replication can now be used for the development of preventative and therapeutic T cell-based vaccines" Some HIV-2 patients can eradicate the virus from their blood Scientists have found that people infected... more
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Briefing on Release of Annual Report on the Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries
Topix - Monday, September 17, 2007
p> Briefing on Release of Annual Report on the Major Illicit Drug Producing Countries for FY 2008 Christy McCampbell , Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Washington, ... via State Department ... more
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Flooding iN Senegal and Guinea Bissau Embassy?
Topix - Sunday, September 16, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." Your best bet... more
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China supports UN chief's diplomacy to end Sudan conflicts
Topix - Thursday, September 13, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"There is nothing to worry about the tendency to politicize" China on Monday voiced strong support for UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's diplomatic push to end conflicts in Sudan through fresh peace negotiations in Tripoli next month. via Earth Times ... more
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Guinea-Bissau: Former PM seeks asylum after accusing the nation's president of murder
Global Voices Online - Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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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Authorities Harass Press Over Reports On Drug Trade
allAfrica.com - Wednesday, September 12, 2007
he Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Amnesty International have called on Guinea-Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira to stop official harassment of journalists reporting on drug trafficking in the West African ... more
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West Africa draws up plan to fight drug smuggling
Topix - Tuesday, September 11, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Guinea-Bissau is a fairly straight 4,000 miles across the Atlantic from the coca fields of South America" West Africa is drawing up a plan to fight drug trafficking, in particular of Latin American cocaine and Asian heroin being smuggled to lucrative markets in Europe, a regional... more
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Guinea-Bissau: Girls balance school, domestic chores - and football
Topix - Sunday, September 09, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"My name is Isabel Lus Gomes. I am 15 years old and I always studied in the Cunha Gomes School. I am a sixth-grade student. I should be almost finishing school, but unfortunately I was enrolled late." At the FIFA Women's World Cup China 2007, which... more
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CEO quits BCP
Topix - Saturday, September 08, 2007
p> Paulo Teixeira Pinto, who was CEO at Millennium bcp bank, Portugal's richest private bank, officially resigned is post last Friday. via The Portugal Resident ... more
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