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World Food Programme Moving a Million Books to Guinea-Bissau Schools
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has begun moving around a million books to almost 1,000 Guinea-Bissau schools on behalf of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF.
World Food Programme Renews Commitment to Support Recovery in Guinea-Bissau
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has announced a renewed commitment to raising levels of nutrition and increasing access to education in Guinea-Bissau. It has extended its post-conflict relief and recovery operation through the end of 2011...
GUINEA-BISSAU: Zero Tolerance of Cholera This Rainy Season
Staff from NGOs and the health authorities are going house-to-house to distribute thousands of bottles of bleach to residents in the Bafata area of central Guinea-Bissau, to prevent another cholera outbreak. An epidemic in 2008 claimed at least 225 lives...
Bissau Guineans Hold Rally in Support of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr.
Hundreds of people demonstrated Thursday afternoon in front of the Bissau-Guinean Prime Minister’s office in support of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, abducted in the early hours of Thursday by dissident soldiers and detained in an unknown place. The...
Four Suspected Drug Dealers Arrested in Guinea Bissau
Four alleged drug dealers were arrested by the Bissau-Guinean army, sources close to army staff said Friday in Bissau. An Iraqi and a Tunisian national and two Bissau-Guineans, including a senior official of the Ministry of the Interior, were among the...
Guinea Bissau And the United States Sign Judicial Cooperation Agreement
Guinea Bissau and the United States of America have signed an agreement that will allow the United-States to send a prosecutor who will work with the state prosecutor in Guinea Bissau to fight against drug trafficking and organized crime in the country. The...
Senegalese Customs Arrest Gambian Carrying Over $400,000 Undeclared Cash
Senegalese customs officers in the village of Karang, at the border with neighboring Gambia have reportedly arrested a Gambian national in possession of ’undeclared foreign currency’ amounting to $448, 170, equivalent to (205 million CFA francs),...
Guinea Bissau Confiscates 10 Foreign Fishing Vessels
10 foreign fishing vessels have been confiscated this year by the Department of Maritime Observation (Fiscap) of Guinea Bissau, the Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior announced on Monday in Bissau, the capital.
