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Bissau asked to sustain drug combat

afrol News - The UN Security Council has urged the government of Guinea-Bissau to double efforts "to strengthen its international and regional cooperation to sustain the fight against narcotics trade and organised crime."

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Benin
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"Public debate in Benin being silenced"

afrol News - Several media and civil society organisations in Benin have been forced to dance to government's tune, abandoning their role in democracy in fear of censorship and losing government contracts worth several millions of CFA francs, human rights activists are complaining. Benin has until recently been known as the African country most respecting press freedom.

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Rafael Marques
Angola
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Rafael Marques: The Lipstick of Dictatorship

afrol News / Misanet.com / Agora - The following article by prominent Angolan journalist Rafael Marques was published in Agora newspaper on 3 July 1999. In January 2002, Marques was instructed by the Provincial Court of Luanda to pay compensation of 30,000 kwanza (about US$ 950) to President Eduardo dos Santos, after the court found him guilty of defaming, slandering and injuring the President.

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