When the killings occurred in Guinea Bissau which cost the lives of the President and the Army chief of staff, The Government of the Gambia invited representatives of the political parties in Guinea Bissau to come to the Gambia to discuss about reconciliation. Their presence was transformed into a major event. It culminated with the drafting of a Memorandum of Understanding which borrowed all the words...
West Africa has become a major transit point for Latin American cocaine on its way to Europe. Guinea-Bissau is now Africa's first narco-state , a nation controlled and corrupted by drug cartels. It is indeed a country of dreams, with everything criminals need: "a strategic location, weak governance, and an endless source of foot soldiers who see few viable alternatives to a life of crime"....
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This Special Research Report analyses the third year of operations of the UN’s Peacebuilding Commission (PBC), and is a follow-up to Security Council Report’s Special Research Reports of 17 October 2008 and 5 October 2007, analysing the second and first years of the work of the PBC, respectively, and the Special Research Report of 23 June 2006 which reported on the lead-up to and establishment...
Image from The Telegraph Islamic Militants Boosting Role In Drug Trade -- Washington Times The sea lanes of the South Atlantic have become a favored route for drug traffickers carrying narcotics from Latin America to West and North Africa, where al Qaeda-related groups are increasingly involved in transporting the drugs to Europe, intelligence officials and counternarcotics specialists say. A Middle...
The Bissau Guinean head of state, Malam Bacai Sanha has announced, the end of “plotted coups,” while calling on the army to help “restore peace and stability in the country, as well as in the sub-region.” “Our army must help restore peace and stability in the country, but also in the sub-region so that our children [...]
Shuttle Atlantis Lifts Off for 11-Day Mission -- The New York Times KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. — The shuttle Atlantis vaulted into orbit Monday and set off after the International Space Station, carrying 15 tons of spare parts and equipment as a hedge against failures after the shuttle fleet is retired next year. Read more .... MIDDLE EAST Mossad took minister: Iran . IAEA sees risk Iran hiding...
U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) Director-General Jacques Diouf speaks on a telephone during a 24-hour fast at the agency's headquarters in Rome November 13, 2009. A U.N. world food summit starts on Monday in Rome. Giulio Napolitano/Reuters World Food Security Summit Opens In Rome -- UPI ROME, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- World leaders -- minus some of the large players -- met in Rome Monday to discuss...
The unstable nation, along with other West African countries, makes an ideal stop for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe. As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African country, with its starry array of remote islands, as a transit point for drug shipments bound for Europe. It hasn't been easy....
The unstable nation, along with other West African countries, makes an ideal stop for cartels smuggling drugs from South America to Europe. As a senior police official, Edmundo Mendes' job is to arrest the South American cocaine traffickers who use his troubled West African country, with its starry array of remote islands, as a transit point for drug shipments bound for Europe. It hasn't been easy....
Leaving Bissau tomorrow. We’ve taken up @atlanticrising’s kind offer of a lift through (an unstable) Guinea. Sierra Leone next wk? Leaving Bissau tomorrow. We’ve… is a post from: Listen to Africa Leaving Bissau tomorrow. We’ve… is a post from: Listen to Africa
We recorded this at low tide on Orango island – a stunning and sparsely populated island of deserted beaches and mangrove forests in Guinea-Bissau’s Bijagos archipelago. The sea was remarkably calm during our stay on the island, and the sounds... Soundscape: Lapping island waves is a post from: Listen to Africa
Last week, we left our bikes in Bissau and set off by boat to a couple of islands in the Bijagos archipelago – a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve – with Lynn, Tim and Will of Atlantic Rising. The weekly boat between... Soundscape: The pirogue to Orango is a post from: Listen to Africa
His Excellency Gideon Behar, the ambassador extra-ordinary plenipotentiary of the Republic of Israel based in Dakar (Senegal) who is also overseeing The Gambia, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone and Guinea Bissau, has expressed optimism that the bilateral relationship between The Gambia and Israel will yield meaningful gains as the relationship continues.
The European Union (EU) has expressed concern over the security situation in Niger, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Cote d Ivoire. The move came at the end of the 16th EU and the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) ministerial meeting. According to a communiqué reaching here at the end of a meeting, both parties called for re-establishing a constructive and inclusive dialogue among...
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Spain, Portugal, Morocco, Algeria, Mauritania, Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, The Gambia, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Côte d'Ivoire. That's what you can see in this picture courtesy of ESA's satellite network. What you can't see is a per capita income of $200 per year, or $80,000 for the...
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