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GUINEA-BISSAU: Capital declared safe from mines
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
ISSAU Wednesday, August 16, 2006 (IRIN) - Officials in Guinea-Bissau on Wednesday declared the once embattled nationâ??s capital mine-free and said citizens were safe to roam anywhere in the ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Government targets price speculators
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
ISSAU Thursday, August 24, 2006 (IRIN) - In an effort to control the cost of rice in Guinea-Bissau as it soars above state-dictated levels, the Ministry of Commerce is coming down hard on merchants who inflate prices. ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Price of rice out of reach
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
ISSAU Friday, September 01, 2006 (IRIN) - Whether living in towns or rural farming communities, residents of Guinea-Bissau canâ??t afford to buy their national staple, rice, despite government price ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Unsold cashews a disaster for farmers
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
ISSAU Monday, September 11, 2006 (IRIN) - Staring hunger in the face, farmer Aladje Madio Dembo has travelled to the Guinea Bissau capital Bissau in a desperate bid to sell his 10-tonne cashew nut harvest and raise some ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Proposed law to ban female genital mutilation
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
AFATA Friday, September 15, 2006 (IRIN) - The practice of fanado, or female genital mutilation, could soon be outlawed by a new bill to be presented to the Guinea-Bissau ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Proposed law could outlaw female genital mutilation
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
AFATA Friday, September 15, 2006 (IRIN) - The practice of fanado, or female genital mutilation, could soon be outlawed by a new bill to be presented to the Guinea-Bissau ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Cashew crops rot as prices plummet
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
AKAR Wednesday, November 15, 2006 (IRIN) - Piles of cashew nuts painstakingly picked by Guinea-Bissauan farmers to sell for cash are going unsold, and the poorest are being hardest hit as the bottom falls out of the world market for the product, aid agencies ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Former prime minister seeks refuge with UN
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
UINEA BISSAU Wednesday, January 10, 2007 (IRIN) - Less than a week after a previous head of Guinea-Bissauâ??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-SENEGAL: Senegalese seek refuge
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
AO DOMINGOS Monday, January 22, 2007 (IRIN) - Senegalese refugees in Guinea-Bissau who had recently returned to their homes in Senegalâ??s Casamance region on Monday starting fleeing back across the border following four days of fighting. ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: UN rep speaks on negotiating end to crisis with former PM
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
ISSAU Tuesday, January 30, 2007 (IRIN) - The United Nations secretary-generalâ??s representative in Guinea-Bissau, Shola Omoregie, has negotiated an end to a 17-day crisis involving the government and prominent politician Carlos Gomes Junior who had sought refuge in the UN building in ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Fears of an emerging narcostate
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
ISSAU Friday, February 02, 2007 (IRIN) - Guinea-Bissau has become a key transit point for cocaine moving between Latin America and Europe as drug traffickers take advantage of scant surveillance, government instability and poverty to ply their ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: The nearest thing to a prison
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
ISSAU Wednesday, February 07, 2007 (IRIN) - From the street, Guinea-Bissauâ??s so-called â??high-security detention centreâ?? looks like a quaint, albeit rundown, Portuguese house, with a knee-high fence and a row of painted rose tiles running below the roof. But down a precariously steep staircase, 22 young inmates live in filth... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Hunger in a land of plenty
IRIN - Friday, March 30, 2007
EDANDA Tuesday, February 20, 2007 (IRIN) - Driving through lush farmlands, forests and mangrove swamps south from Guinea-Bissauâ??s coastal town of Buba, it is hard to believe that the roughly 100,000 people who live and farm here could not find a way to feed themselves last ... more
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Daily Appointments Schedule for March 30, 2007
Topix - Friday, March 30, 2007
aily Appointments Schedule Office of the Spokesman Washington, DC March 30, 2007 SECRETARY OF STATE RICE: 11:30 a.m. Bilateral with His Excellency Celso Amorim, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Federative ... Comment ... more
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Resignation of Prime Minister Sparks Concern
Topix - Friday, March 30, 2007
he Security Council voiced alarm today about the political and social tensions in the small, impoverished West African nation of Guinea-Bissau after the resignation of the country's Prime Minister, and called ... Comment ... more
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Resignation of Prime Minister Sparks Concern
allAfrica.com - Friday, March 30, 2007
he Security Council voiced alarm today about the political and social tensions in the small, impoverished West African nation of Guinea-Bissau after the resignation of the country's Prime Minister, and called on Government and legislative leaders to resolve their differences through ... more
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Guinea-Bissau PM resigns: report
Topix - Thursday, March 29, 2007
uinea-Bissau Prime Minister Aristides Gomes announced his resignation on Thursday, reports said. Comment ... more
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Prime minister of Guinea-Bissau announces resignation
Topix - Thursday, March 29, 2007
rime Minister Aristides Gomes announced his resignation in a hastily convened press conference in his office Thursday. Comment ... more
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Premier Oil ditches well
Topix - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
REMIER Oil, the Edinburgh-registered energy explorer, said it would be plugging and abandoning its Espinafre-1 well in Guinea Bissau. Comment ... more
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UN Remembers Slavery Abolition
Topix - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
nited Nations, Mar 26 On Monday at the United Nations there are several activities announced to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in England and there is a visit of the Prime Minister ... Comment ... more
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