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Vieira rejects calls to dissolve government
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
uinea-Bissau's presidency on Tuesday resisted calls from the three main parliamentary parties to dissolve the government of Prime Minister Aristide Gomes in favour of a national unity coalition. Comment ... more
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Portugal Telecom mulls creation of pan-African mobile operator
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
ortugal Telecom wants to set up a new pan-African mobile services operator based in Angola, the company's chief executive officer said in a magazine interview published on Thursday. Comment ... more
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West Africa a new hub in cocaine trafficking
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
landmark shift in trafficking routes has transformed West Africa into a hub for cocaine smuggled from South America to a booming European market, anti-drug officials on three continents say. Comment ... more
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Orange Wins Africa Licenses
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
rance Telecom is today announcing the extension of its presence in Africa through two operations completed by Sonatel, its Senegalese subsidiary . Comment ... more
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Guinea-Bissau: Former PM seeks asylum after accusing the nation’s president of murder
Global Voices Online - Thursday, March 15, 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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Cashew Policy Could Bring Back Hunger, FAO Warns
allAfrica.com - Thursday, March 15, 2007
s more than 100,000 tonnes of cashews begin to ripen on trees around Guinea-Bissau, agricultural economists have warned the government against making the same policy decisions as in 2006 that left many farmers unable to sell their produce, triggering ... more
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Guinea-Bissau - Topix.net
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
ews on Guinea-Bissau continually updated from thousands of sources around the ... more
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: Africa's New Hegemon by James Kirchick
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
u Jintao, president of China, has just completed an eight-nation tour of Africa--a visit that comes on the heels of a meeting in Beijing attended by some 40 African heads of state. Comment ... more
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GBissau not up to drug fight
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
uinea Bissau’s navy chief has warned that he was "terribly lacking" the resources needed to deal with drug trafficking and illegal fishing off the country’s coastline. Comment ... more
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Countries Earn $419 Million From Exports to U.S.
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
he three East African states of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, along with Rwanda and Burundi - the two latest entrants to the East African Community - failed once again to pass the $0.5 billion in combined total ... Comment ... more
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Mud in Mozambique
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
girl runs down a dust path, Santa hat on her head, whistle in her mouth. Ahead, Maputo's lumpen-expatriate community disperses through the shantytown, shouting to each other. Comment ... more
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Guinea-Bissau parties decide on unity pact
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
uinea-Bissau's main opposition party agreed on Monday to form a new government of national unity with the ruling coalition, which will control nearly all the seats in the volatile West African state's ... Comment ... more
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Cashew Policy Could Bring Back Hunger, FAO Warns
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
s more than 100,000 tonnes of cashews begin to ripen on trees around Guinea-Bissau, agricultural economists have warned the government against making the same policy decisions as in 2006 that left many farmers ... Comment ... more
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Vieira rejects calls to dissolve government
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
uinea-Bissau's presidency on Tuesday resisted calls from the three main parliamentary parties to dissolve the government of Prime Minister Aristide Gomes in favour of a national unity coalition. Comment ... more
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Portugal Telecom mulls creation of pan-African mobile operator
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
ortugal Telecom wants to set up a new pan-African mobile services operator based in Angola, the company's chief executive officer said in a magazine interview published on Thursday. Comment ... more
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West Africa a new hub in cocaine trafficking
Topix - Thursday, March 15, 2007
landmark shift in trafficking routes has transformed West Africa into a hub for cocaine smuggled from South America to a booming European market, anti-drug officials on three continents say. Comment ... more
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Government targets price speculators
IRIN - Thursday, March 15, 2007
n 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 - Thursday, March 15, 2007
hether living in towns or rural farming communities, residents of Guinea-Bissau can'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 - Thursday, March 15, 2007
taring 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 - Thursday, March 15, 2007
he 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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