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Wang Guangya: African issues set to top Security Council agenda this month
Topix - Sunday, July 08, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"During the period of its presidency, China will promote resolving the African issues. And in discussion of the issues, China will understand and support the African Union and the African countries." Crises and conflicts in Africa are set to dominate the UN Security Council this month.... more
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U.S. reopens diplomatic office in Guinea-Bissau
Topix - Saturday, July 07, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Narco-trafficking is a tremendous concern. The European Union has also expressed its concern and we hear from a lot of citizens there that they are worried about it" The United States reopened a diplomatic office in Guinea-Bissau on Saturday after a decade of absence, amid fears... more
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U.S. queried Bissau firing of top drugs cop: letter
Topix - Friday, July 06, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The United States is profoundly concerned by the sacking of Orlando Antonio da Silva and his colleague" Washington challenged Guinea-Bissau's government over its sacking of a police chief who won praise for tackling Latin American cocaine traffickers, according to a diplomatic note seen by Reuters. ... more
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Impunity and low risk make region "haven" for traffickers
Topix - Thursday, July 05, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"No country in West Africa is immune from the drug trafficking attack" While worldwide production, trafficking and consumption of illegal drugs remained stable last year, West Africa bucked the global trend and saw increased trafficking and use of cocaine and other drugs, ... via IRIN... more
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African Crises Set to Top Agenda
Topix - Wednesday, July 04, 2007
p> The crises and conflicts in Africa and the Middle East are expected to dominate the agenda at the Security Council this month, its President for July, Ambassador Wang Guangya of China, said today. via Scoop ... more
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Senegal unravels cocaine network
Topix - Tuesday, July 03, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The South Americans created a fish farming company" By Diadie Ba Dakar - Senegalese police are unravelling a Latin American drug smuggling network thought to be using the west African nation as a hub for trafficking to Europe and the United States after seizing ... ... more
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Gambia: Does the President Know Where Some of the Bulls Are Coming From?
Topix - Monday, July 02, 2007
p> Women who are engaged in the operation of small scale enterprises are growing. However, they are finding it very difficult to guarantee regular supply of commodities. via AllAfrica.com ... more
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Guinea Bissau Farewell Act to Cuban Collaborators
Topix - Sunday, July 01, 2007
p> Bissau, Jun 28 Guinea Bissau Prime Minister Martinho Dafa Cabi gave a farewell celebration to Cuban group of health and education collaborators, who finish their mission in that African country. via Prensa Latina ... more
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Bissau's ex-PM says ordered missing cocaine burnt
Topix - Saturday, June 30, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"Anyone who doubts that can take the affair to the courts." The former prime minister of Guinea-Bissau said a huge cocaine haul which mysteriously disappeared from police custody several months ago had been burnt on his orders. via AlertNet ... more
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UN Deputy Chief Visits in Show of Support
allAfrica.com - Friday, June 29, 2007
nited Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro arrived in Guinea-Bissau today on a visit intended to reaffirm the world body's support for the West African's country's ongoing efforts to consolidate peace, national reconciliation and constitutional ... more
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Deserted cocaine boat in Senegal
Topix - Friday, June 29, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"It is regrettable that the rest of the consignment was not intercepted but hardly surprising as the police are woefully ill-equipped and often do not even have enough gasoline to operate their vehicles" Poor West African states are seen as a new hub for the drugs... more
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Two die in battle over dead pig
Topix - Thursday, June 28, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"The tragic scene played out in the villages of Naga and Insume where, during a traditional circumcision ceremony, two rival groups came to blows with machetes while sharing out the meat from a pig sacrificed for the occasion" Villagers fought with machetes while sharing out meat... more
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World disorder in the 21st century --
Topix - Wednesday, June 27, 2007
p> In 2005 the journal, Foreign Policy, and the Fund for Peace conducted a study on failed states. via Trinidad & Tobago Express ... more
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Pygmy hippo is born at Paris Zoo
Topix - Tuesday, June 26, 2007
p> Anais, the mother hippo, keeps an eye on its son Aldo, a three-week-old pygmy hippopotamus, , at the Vincennes zoo, outside Paris, Tuesday, June 26, 2007. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer ... more
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WISeKey and Group Brasilinvest Join Forces to Launch WISeKey Brasil
Topix - Monday, June 25, 2007
p> GENEVA, Switzerland, VALENCIA, Spain and SAO PAULO, Brazil, June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- WISeKey is expanding its global reach to South America. via Earth Times ... more
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Land cover change in two protected areas of Guinea-Bissau
Topix - Sunday, June 24, 2007
p> Abstract The objective of this work was to quantify and spatially characterize land cover change in the regions of the Cacheu and Orango protected areas . via CiteULike ... more
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St. Pete Resident Hooks Record Tarpon
Topix - Saturday, June 23, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"I wouldn't kill a fish just for the sake of killing a fish" Of those records, all of the major fly-fishing records have been caught off the coast in the Homosassa area. via The Ledger ... more
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Ghana: Deputy Secretary-General to Address African Union Summit
Topix - Friday, June 22, 2007
p> United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Asha-Rose Migiro will address the annual summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union , to be held in Ghana in early July, as part of a four-nation tour ... via AllAfrica.com ... more
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Senegal, Bissau seize migrants as departures surge
Topix - Thursday, June 21, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"That's our fifth seizure of a boat since the start of June" Police in Senegal and neighbouring Guinea-Bissau have in the last few days detained more than 150 illegal migrants who were trying to leave by boat for Spain's Canary Islands, officials said. via AlertNet... more
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Angola, Guinea Bissau sign police cooperation protocol
Topix - Wednesday, June 20, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"We had a common historic struggle and based on this all Angolan and Bissau Guinean officials treat themselves as comrades, " The governments of Angola and Guinea Bissau here on Tuesday signed a bilateral cooperation protocol in the police sector, visiting Interior Minister of Guinea Bissau... more
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