Guinea-Bissau News

The Sahel Opera's Bintou Were tells the story of a former child soldier who travels from Africa to Europe.

March 8 - Suicide bomber strikes police academy in Baghdad, killing at least 30.

Beijing has played a major role in the dramatic rise of Macao's international status since the region's return to China a decade ago, said Lu Shumin, Commissioner of the Foreign Ministry in the Macao Special Administrative Region .

Also In Global Health News: Hospital Births In Guinea-Bissau; Drought In E. Africa; Drug-Resistant Malaria; U.S. Response To H1N1 Main Category: Women's Health / Gynecology Also Included In: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture ; Tropical Diseases ; Swine Flu Article Date: 18 Dec 2009 - 2:00 PST IRIN examines the increase in the number of women giving ...

More women in Guinea-Bissau are shunning traditional birthing attendants and choosing to give birth in hospitals, say doctors and aid officials, who hope this will help bring down the maternal death rate.

Economic Community of West African States Secretary General says Guinea is a potentially 'explosive' situation that could undermine regional efforts to consolidate peace in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea-Bissau, and Ivory Coast Scott Stearns Conakry Photo: AFP Guinea's military ruler Captain Moussa Dadis Camara International mediators say insecurity ...

During his 11 months in power, Guinean strongman Moussa Dadis Camara, an army captain turned head of state, has been famous for his rants on television.

By Mathieu Bonkoungou Ouagadougou - Guinea, whose military leader was the target of a botched assassination attempt last week, needs a West African protection force urgently, an official of a regional bloc said on Sunday.

DUBAI // It took a major travel snag, that left him stranded at an airport for two nights, for Kashi Samaddar to embark on an epic series of trips that have seen him visit almost 200 countries and earn recognition in Guinness World Records.

The head of the UN drugs agency has warned that widespread drug trafficking is transforming Africa into a major crime hub.

Customs officers have seized drugs worth more than a 250,000 at Dublin Airport in two separate seizures.

Accused hedge fund fraudster Helmut Kiener certainly has a knack for hitting it off with insignificant countries.

Guinea's president has been medically evacuated to Morocco for treatment after he was shot during an assassination attempt nearly a year after he seized power in a coup, a government official said Friday.

As part of a project to support community initiatives and fight poverty in South Senegal, the Sdhiou Local Development Fund received a donation of agricultural equipment worth more than half a million dollars in a bid to reverse the region's dramatic drop in agricultural production in recent years.

"There has been significant progress, but there are still concerns about the difficulties and problems that are undermining the overall development of people." This is what the Bishops of the Inter-territorial Bishops' Conference of Senegal, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and Mauritania said, in evaluating the social situation of their countries in a ...

El Pais headlines that the swoop against the ETA youth group has sunk the hard wing of the radical - abertzale' left wing.

Pascal Guyot / AFP / Getty At the national stadium in the Guinean capital, Conakry, it's oddly quiet - the only sounds that can be heard are the muffled beats of a drum band practicing nearby.

The European Union has managed to set up institutions that have been able to deal with crises in the African continent.

The year 2009 is definitely Presidential year; Barack Obama is inaugurated as the 44th, and first African American President of the United States, Johanna Sigur ardottir is appointed as the new Prime Minister of Iceland, becoming the world's first openly lesbian head of government.

The Presidential Palace in Guinea Bissau lies derelict and burnt out. You can walk amongst the shards of broken crockery, blackened banisters, and singed carpets.