Hunger projects stalled in Guinea-Bissau
Source: IRIN
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-05-09 03:56:28 -0700 | political-news
The World Food Programme (WFP) has not received the money it needs to run basic nutrition and food security schemes in Guinea-Bissau, leaving projects in jeopardy or at a standstill. The organization needs US$7 million immediately to cover its food...
Africa: A Period of Reflection On the Future of the EU-Africa Partnership Has Been Launched
Source: All Africa
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-05-08 10:51:04 -0700 | political-news
The sixth meeting between the European Union Commission and the African Union Commission was the opportunity to set out the state of play on what the partnership has achieved to date and to launch a period of reflection on its...
Attitudes of world Muslims
Source: Arab News
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-05-07 18:22:06 -0700 | political-news
Alsir Sidahmed Wednesday 8 May 2013 Last Update 8 May 2013 3:03 am The respected US Pew Research Center released its findings about Muslims and their aspirations around the world last month. The survey is an interesting one, given its...
AU could lift sanctions against Guinea-Bissau
Source: The Boston Globe
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-05-02 10:52:18 -0700 | political-news
Guinea-Bissau (AP) The African Union says it could lift sanctions against Guinea-Bissau as the country's leader promises elections later this year. The West African country long destabilized by rebellions suffered its latest coup in April 2012. Guinea-Bissau's interim leader is...
Guinea-Bissau acting president says elections soon
Source: Fox News
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-29 11:08:44 -0700 | political-news
Guinea Bissau Guinea-Bissau's interim president pledged to hold elections before the end of the year. Interim President Manuel Serifo Mhamadjo spoke to the press Sunday after returning to the country after spending just over a month in Germany where...
Guinea-Bissau leader returns after month-long absence
Source: Daily Nation
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-29 09:07:59 -0700 | political-news
Rating In Summary Other incidents such as involvement of senior state officials and military authorities in drug trafficking and apparent collaboration with Colombian terrorist organisations in purchase of weapons plague the West African nation. Monday Guinea-Bissau's transition President...
Guinea-Bissau convicts soldier for coup attempt
Source: The Boston Globe
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-25 10:14:49 -0700 | travel-news
Guinea-Bissau (AP) A military tribunal in Guinea-Bissau has convicted an army captain of leading a failed coup last year. Pansau Ntchama was sentenced on Thursday to serve five years in prison after being found guilty of treason and using illegal...
Drugs sting misses Bissau army chief : sources
Source: Reuters
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-17 10:10:11 -0700 | travel-news
U.S. anti-drugs agents who snared Guinea-Bissau's former Navy chief in a high-seas sting last week were also targeting the head of the West African state's army, sources familiar with the operation told Reuters.
U.S. Sting That Snared Guinea-Bissau Ex-Admiral Shines Light on Drug Trade
Source: International Herald Tribune
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-15 17:53:13 -0700 | political-news
Senegal For months, they met in hotel rooms and at an army base in Guinea-Bissau , plotting the exchange of thousands of pounds of cocaine and an arsenal of weapons between South America and West Africa...Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto,...
Alleged drug lord seized, but Africa trade grows
Source: United Press International
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-11 12:03:27 -0700 | political-news
U.S. agents have captured an alleged drug-smuggling kingpin who operated in Guinea-Bissau, a West African country Western authorities consider the world's only true narco-state...Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, the former commander of Guinea-Bissau's navy, near the Cape Verde Islands, isn't...
Africa: The Ringtone and the Drum - Travels in the World's Poorest Countries
Source: All Africa
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-11 10:12:51 -0700 | political-news
In his first book, Mark Weston has given himself the challenge of observing the daily life of people in three of the world's poorest countries: Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone and Burkina Faso. I was fascinated by the journey that Weston and...
AP source: US authorities arrest former navy chief
Source: SF Gate
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-05 21:48:41 -0700 | political-news
U.S. authorities operating at sea have arrested a former navy chief of the small West African nation of Guinea-Bissau who is suspected of being a kingpin in the international drug trade, a law enforcement official said Friday. Four other people...
US agents arrest Guinea-Bissau ex-official
Source: Al Jazeera
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2013-04-04 21:11:30 -0700 | political-news
19 Bubo Na Tchuto was detained by anti-narcotics officers along with four other people on a boat [EPA] Undercover US agents have arrested the former navy chief of Guinea-Bissau, wanted by Washington for his role in the international drugs trade,...
Guinea-Bissau: Military coup leaders and political parties meet to forge accord
Posted by: northsunm32
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2012-07-27 04:32:09 -0700 | disasters-news
Soldiers arrested the prime minister several days ago. Now as in Mali the coup leaders are attempting to find a political solution to legitimize their actions. Guinea-Bissau has been known for coups ever since independence. The country is widely known...
Guinea-Bissau: the assassination of a military presidential discolors
Posted by: egyjan25
Bissau :: Guinea Bissau | updated 2012-07-27 22:57:16 -0700 | political-news
BISSAU - The assassination of a former army chief in Bissau a blemish on the conduct of the presidential first round of Guinea-Bissau, according to early indications are placed at the head Monday Carlos Gomes Junior, Kumba Yala and Serifo...
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