Guinea-Bissau News

Organized crime poses a grave threat to countries emerging from conflict that are seeking to consolidate peace, the top United Nations police official warned INTERPOL today, calling for increased global ...

Vietnam calls on all national stakeholders in Guinea-Bissau to exercise restraint, renounce violence and strengthen political dialogue and reconciliation, thus contributing to consolidating peace and creating ...

Friday, 10 October 2008, 10:17 am Press Release: United Nations General Assembly President calls for boosting UN's peacebuilding capacity 9 October 2008 – The President of the General Assembly today ...

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 ...

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.

Wednesday, 8 October 2008, 9:56 am Press Release: United Nations The impact of the illicit drug trade on Guinea-Bissau should not be underestimated, the top United Nations political official said today, warning ...

WHEN liberation movements take power, their governments are often marked by military mindsets, categorising people as winners and losers and operating along the lines of command and obedience.

Friday, 3 October 2008, 10:22 am Press Release: United Nations Ban voices concern over instability ahead of elections in Guinea-Bissau 2 October 2008 – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed concern ...

While the United States Supreme Court considered the case of Troy Davis in Georgia, the Community of Saint Egidio organized the III International Congress for Ministers of Justice on September 29.

A cholera epidemic plaguing Guinea-Bissau since May has claimed more lives, as the death toll surpassed 140 people while nearly 7 800 people have now been infected, hospital officials said on Tuesday.

Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has signed an agreement to implement spelling reforms in the Portuguese language.

The soaring cost of fuel and basic foods over the past year has left many countries in sub-Saharan Africa unable to adequately fund critical activities, such as healthcare and provision of safe drinking water, ...

The Liberation Music Orchestra launches the Northrop Jazz Season this Saturday. Quick, name a protest band.

The soaring cost of fuel and basic foods over the past year has left many countries in sub-Saharan Africa unable to adequately fund critical activities, such as health care and the provision of safe drinking ...

These are just some of the events that happened on September 24th. 1776 , the St Leger horserace was run for the first time at Doncaster, England.

The Senegalese capital, Dakar, is filled with street children from villages in Guinea Bissau.

The United States says West African countries have emerged as key transit hubs for cocaine trafficked from South America to Europe.

DAKAR, 17 September 2008 - With 6,461 cholera cases and 122 deaths, experts say the cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau is out of control.

A cholera outbreak in Guinea-Bissau has spread and the death toll doubled in a month to 122 because many people resist a ban on funeral customs that propagate the disease, health officials said on Wednesday.

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