Guinea-Bissau News

“Everyone is against drug trafficking in this country of chameleons”

Reporters Without Borders today released the report of a fact-finding visit to Guinea-Bissau to investigate the precarious situation of its journalists. via AllAfrica.com

“The British have only left a small team behind”

With the trial of two British girls accused of smuggling drugs set to resume this week, Dan McDougall in Prampram reveals how cartels move their cocaine to Europe by exploiting the vulnerable and the poor ... via Guardian Unlimited

West Africa is one of two principal routes used by drug traffickers to export South American cocaine to Europe. via Fides News

The Office of Weapons Removal and Abatement in the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Political-Military Affairs issued a fifth "Request for Applications" for Federal grants for projects reducing the ... via State Department

“When I was the head of the mediation team in the DRC for instance, there was no funding for such a mission, and I had to pay the mediation team from my pockets”

Two of Africa's most respected elder statesmen, Botswana's former president Ketumile Masire and Mozambican ex-leader Joaquim Chissano, believe the continent is finally shedding its reputation as a theatre of ... via Independent Online

A patrol boat has rescued nearly 100 migrants after they spent three weeks at sea off the coast of West Africa. via WLOX-TV Biloxi

China's largest cellular operator, state owned China Mobile, is close to striking a deal which will see it take a stake in pan-African mobile group MTN, according to XFN-Asia which cites a report from Shanghai ... via TeleGeography CommsUpdate

By TODD PITMAN : Associated Press Writer Nov 3, 2007 : 3:28 am ET Cocaine trafficking could become the biggest source of income in impoverished Guinea-Bissau, dwarfing all other economic sectors combined, a top ... via HeraldSun.com

“My oldest son gets into fights on the soccer field almost every day because his team-mates make comments about me and say that he's got AIDS too. This isn't true. My children are healthy”

If they could go back in time, perhaps they would do things differently. Three women who revealed their HIV-positive status on local television have seen their lives fall apart since they spoke out. via PlusNews.org

Cocaine trafficking could become the biggest source of income in impoverished Guinea-Bissau, dwarfing all other economic sectors combined, a top U.N official said Thursday, adding the influx of drug money could ... via PR-inside.com

' Victimized communities agree that the act of seeking intergroup forgiveness is key in facilitating the process of reconciliation. via Huliq.com

The Public Works minister of Guinea Bissau, Rui Arajo Gomes, carried out last Wednesday and Thursday a two-day work visit to Benguela Province, meant to assess the government's efforts focussed on national ... via AllAfrica.com

"I received the news of my appointment as Cardinal, as a call, a duty, to serve the Lord more and better" said Archbishop Theodore Adrien Sarr of Dakar in Senegal and President of the Bishops' Conference of ... via Fides News

Banco Comercial Portugues SA, Portugal's biggest publicly traded bank, said it will consider an unsolicited 11.8 billion-euro offer from Banco BPI SA, after its own bid for the smaller rival failed in May. via Bloomberg.com

Guinea Bissau has hit the headlines recently, for all the wrong reasons -- reports of links to international cocaine cartels. via NPR

“Any criminal knows that he won't even go to prison”

Guinea Bissau has no prisons. View a slideshow of a detention center where criminals are held. via National Public Radio

“We have shown that quality of care in the paediatric ward ... depends not only on training and availability of drugs but also on financial incentives”

Strictly enforcing Malaria treatment guidelines and paying hospital workers extra halved mortality from the disease in one children's hospital ward, a study in Guinea-Bissau found. via AlertNet

“Observers contrast for example US support for Liberia, UK support for Sierra Leone and French support for Cote d'Ivoire.”

DAKAR, 22 October 2007 - The UN Security Council has warned that Guinea Bissau is being "undermined" by prolific drug trafficking which is making the tiny country a threat to West Africa's stability. via IRIN

“Botlhogo-nkopa ba ba lwantshng puso ya ga John Vorster - radicals fighting the South African regime”

An announcement appeared in the Government Gazette - probably read only by the people who write it - for the Botswana Journalists Association to 'show cause' why it should not be struck of the list of ... via Mmegi

“Because the international community was ready to assist. We organized several conferences on prison reform. But the request was only to 'give us money to repair the prisons.' But this is not the way the ICRC works; this is not the way of cooperation.”

It has been 10 years since the end of Tajikistan's civil war. An expert panel, convened recently in Washington to evaluate the post-war era, generally lauded Tajikistan's reconstruction process. via EurasiaNet