All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Hundreds of public sector workers across Guinea-Bissau, including nurses, doctors and civil servants, are striking over salary arrears, leaving basic services running at minimum capacity.
Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Emerson Santiago [pt] writes at Patafurdia Magazine about akonting, the musical instrument found in Senegal, Gambia, and Guinea-Bissau in West Africa. “The Portuguese colonizers and the North American slaves owners began to call the instrument “Banjo”, coming from the Quimbundo word “m'banza” (language of the second largest ethnic group in Angola), which means “home”, “city”, [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Guinea has become a major drug-trafficking hub and the trade there is now potentially more dangerous than in Guinea-Bissau, according to Antonio Mazzitelli, regional representative of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
International experts say the UN's consideration of creating a sanctions panel so close to next month's scheduled legislative elections could destabilise the country, which has been wracked by repeated coup attempts and increased drug trafficking in recent years.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Guinea-Bissau had come a long way since the civil war of the late 1990s, but all those gains would be at risk if stability were not cemented and the menace of the illicit drug trade was not confronted head-on through a regional approach, B. Lynn Pascoe, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, told the Security Council this morning.
Reuters (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Preparations for a November 16 parliamentary election are on track in the West African state of Guinea-Bissau, where narcotics trade and organized crime are at crisis levels, a U.N. official said on Tuesday.
Unicef (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, 6 October 2008 – Jose Turé is a metal worker here in one of the poorest countries in the world, and his life has been marked by hardship. He left his family behind in the town of Bafata when he moved to Bissau, the capital, in hopes of earning a better living. But the move to the bigger town brought with it a new danger: cholera.
Harold Doan & Associates Ltd. (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
BAN VOICES CONCERN OVER INSTABILITY AHEAD OF ELECTIONS IN GUINEA-BISSAU Press Release - UN News Center Oct 2 2008 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern over the volatile security and political atmosphere in Guinea-Bissau, where crucial elections are slated to take place next month, in his latest report to the Security Council on the West African country. Mr. Ban said that the period covered...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The UN chief calls for sanctions to be considered against those involved in drug trafficking through Guinea-Bissau.
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
The expansion of drug-trafficking networks in west Africa is further corroding Guinea-Bissau's institutions to produce the region's first narco-state, says Emmanuelle Bernard of the International Crisis Group. Guinea-Bissau is most likely the world's next narco-state. The United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates that much of the forty tons of cocaine that transits west Africa every...
New Government Speeches (Free subscription) | 26/09/2008
South Africa signs framework co-operation agreement with Guinea Bissau 26 September 2008 New York: South African Foreign Minister Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma on Thursday 25 September, on the margins of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, signed a framework co-operation agreement between South Africa and Guinea Bissau. The signing of the framework co-operation agreement with Guinea Bissau lays the...
World Health Organization (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
24 September 2008 -- Since the beginning of May 2008, Guinea-Bissau has been facing a large cholera outbreak. As of 21 September, 7 166 cases had been reported throughout the country, among whom 133 people had died. The overall case-fatality rate stands at 1.9%, and decreases below 1% for hospitalized cases. However, the case-fatality rate reaches 9% in remote areas, indicating that rural populations...
Global News Blog (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Global Geopolitics Net Sites / IPS Monday, September 22, 2008 All rights reserved, IPS – Inter Press Service, 2008. Koffigan E. Adigbli Dakar, Sep 22 (IPS) - The Senegalese capital, Dakar, is filled with street children from villages in Guinea Bissau. These boys from Senegal’s southern neighbour — aged anywhere between four and twelve — have been [...]
All Africa (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
With 6,461 cholera cases and 122 deaths, experts say the cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau is out of control.
Bosses blog (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Conectas The Fellowship Program is 21 months in duration and involves both academic study and practical experience in human rights/public interest advocacy. Human rights activists and lawyers from Angola, Mozambique, Guinea Bissau and Cape Verde will be selected to participate in the program. For more information about previous programs, please visit: http://www.conectas.org/intercambio.html (Pambazuka)...
