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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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GUINEA-BISSAU: Cashew crops rot as prices plummet
IRIN - Thursday, March 15, 2007
iles 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: Indicted former prime minister seeks refuge with UN
IRIN - Thursday, March 15, 2007
ess than a week after a previous head of Guinea-Bissau'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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Parliament Ready for Cooperation With Guinea-Bissau
allAfrica.com
- Thursday, March 01, 2007
Angolan Parliament Wednesday in Luanda expressed its readiness to have cooperation with Guinea-Bissau's People's Assembly
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Peace And Development: Which Way For Africa?
Topix
- Thursday, March 01, 2007
Muthoni V. Kamuyu, a program assistant and libertarian at the Center for International Private Enterpriss , writes: "Established in 2002, the AU Peace and Security Council acts as the main thrust of Africa's ... Comment
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GUINEA-BISSAU: Indicted former prime minister seeks refuge with UN
IRIN
- Thursday, February 15, 2007
Less than a week after a previous head of Guinea-Bissau'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
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Women, Not Men, Choose Spouses on Island
Topix
- Sunday, February 04, 2007
He was 14 when the girl entered his grass-covered hut and placed a plate of steaming fish in front of him. Comment
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Bijagos Islands offer extraordinary sights
Topix
- Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Sometimes travel puts us up against a reality that is utterly novel. We arrive by night or fog and perhaps with a certain initial disappointment. Comment
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AFRICA/SENEGAL - Casamance future uncertain following death of Rev. Augustin Diamacoune Senghor
Topix
- Saturday, January 20, 2007
The death of Rev. Augustin Diamacoune Senghor, leader of the Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces, and ensuing struggle for succession in leadership ushers in a 'time of uncertainty' according to Senegalese ... Comment
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Guinea-Bissau: Former PM seeks asylum after accusing the nation’s president of murder
Global Voices Online
- Thursday, January 18, 2007
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
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Political Stability Vital If Country is to Make Economic Progress - Annan
allAfrica.com
- Friday, December 15, 2006
Guinea-Bissau's economic reconstruction remains so fragile that it is vital the country's main political figures show potential international donors and economic partners they can put national interests ahead of their own and resolve any disputes peacefully, Secretary-General Kofi Annan says in a report released
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Macaria Barai - Guinea-Bissau
Topix
- Friday, December 08, 2006
She works for the Women In Peace-building Network WIPNET, the Chamber of Commerce of Guinea-Bissau, and for Citoyens de bonne volontA©. A national of Guinea-Bissau, Madame Macaria Barai is very devoted and ... Comment
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President's Supporters Besiege Radio Station, Force Journalist to Disclose Source
allAfrica.com
- Thursday, December 07, 2006
On 15 November 2006, a group of sympathizers of President Joao Bernardo Vieira besieged Radio Bombolom, an independent radio station based in Bissau, the capital, and forced journalist Antonio Iaia Seidi to disclose a source of information. The angry group also forcibly broadcast a rejoinder to an earlier story filed
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President's Supporters Besiege Radio Station, Force Journalist to Disclose Source
allAfrica.com
- Thursday, December 07, 2006
On 15 November 2006, a group of sympathizers of President Joao Bernardo Vieira besieged Radio Bombolom, an independent radio station based in Bissau, the capital, and forced journalist Antonio Iaia Seidi to disclose a source of information. The angry group also forcibly broadcast a rejoinder to an earlier story filed
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Guinea Bissau names new MP
Topix
- Monday, December 04, 2006
Guinea-Bissau’s President Joao Bernardo Vieira has named a new interior minister, Dionisio Cabi, after firing one closely linked to a prominent opposition politician. Comment
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Guinea Bissau's State Secretary in Huila
allAfrica.com
- Thursday, November 23, 2006
The visiting secretary of State of Guinea Bissau for Mass Media, João de Barros, left Wednesday for Angola's southern province of Huila, for a 24-hour official stay. Joao de Barros, accompanied by Angola's Mass Media deputy minister, Manuel Miguel de Carvalho "Wadijimbi", did not speak to the
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Cashew Crops Rot As Prices Plummet
allAfrica.com
- Monday, November 20, 2006
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 market for the product, aid agencies
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