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New President Malam Bacai Sanha has promised to end Guinea-Bissau"s role as a major global drug trafficking hub.Without giving further details, he promised to tackle the drugs trade, terrorism and organised crime. Latin American drugs cartels use Guinea-Bissau and some of its West African neighbours, as transit points to smuggle ...
Read Story at BBC News (2009-09-25)
Authorities in Guinea Bissau have created a permanent commission to analyse, follow-up and recommend actions on the situation at the country`s common border with Senegal, an official source revealed here Monday. According to a news release, Guinea Bissau`s army chief of staff, Major- General Batista Tagm Na Wai, heads ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2006-01-03)
A group of observers from the Community of Portuguese speaking States (CPLP) arrived here at the weekend to supervise the 19 June presidential election in Guinea-Bissau. According to reliable sources, the CPLP resident representative in Guinea-Bissau, Carlos Alves Moura of Brazil arrived together with the linguistic organ`s observer mission. ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-06-15)
Bissau, 10/25 - Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr Monday begins a tour of Portugal and France to discuss the upcoming donors` conference on rebuilding the West African nation, an official source told PANA in Bissau. During the visit, Gomes and his hosts will map out the organisation of the ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2004-10-25)
The military government of Guinea says it has put the army on high alert at all border posts after uncovering plans for an attack on the country.The West African state said armed men were gathering on the borders with Guinea-Bissau and Senegal to the north and Liberia to the south. ...
Read Story at BBC News (2009-07-12)
Fighting between Guinea Bissau troops and Senegalese separatists has forced more than 4,500 people to flee their homes in the past several days, humanitarian officials said on Monday. Since Thursday the Guinea Bissau military have been bombarding rebels from Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance (MFDC) in the area ...
Read Story at IRINNews (2006-03-20)
Senegal`s CBAO bank will soon open subsidiaries in Bissau Guinea, said Patrick Mestrallet, the bank`s general director, on Wednesday in Dakar. He was presenting his company`s 2004 annual report during at a conference. He said the new venture in Bissau Guinea would cost 1.2 billion FCFA. According to ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-05-26)
Presidents Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, Yaya Jammeh of Gambia, Joao Bernado Vieira of Guinea-Bissau began meeting Friday in Dakar behind closed doors, devoted to the political crisis in Guinea- Bissau and the disagreement between Senegal and Gambia. Senegalese Foreign minister Cheikh Tidiane Gadio said the ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2005-10-22)
Bissau, 12/20 - Mamadou Moustapha Sall, Secretary General, Council for Higher Education in Africa and Madagascar, CAMES, is in Guinea-Bissau at the invitation of Education Minister, Marciano Silva Barbeiro. Sall, who arrived in Bissau Saturday is also expected to meet the country`s Speaker of Parliament, Francisco Benante and the Minister ...
Read Story at AngolaPress (2004-12-20)
Police in Guinea-Bissau seized 674 kg of cocaine yesterday in the tiny country's biggest drugs haul and captured two suspected Venezuelan smugglers after a shoot-out, a top officer said. Guinea-Bissau, with a population of less than 1.5 million, lies on the Atlantic coast of West Africa, a region drug ...
Read Story at SABCNews (2006-09-27)
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