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Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights
UN supports Bissau recovery

afrol News, 22 February - The United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon will soon be asked to declare the war-ravaged country of Guinea-Bissau eligible for an initial UN fund set up for countries that emerge from conflict.

Politics | Economy - Development
Bissau gets post-conflict grant

afrol News, 31 January - An executive board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved an emergency post-conflict assistance amounting to US $2.8 million for Guinea-Bissau.

Politics | Economy - Development
Bissau enjoys debt relief

afrol News, 24 January - Guinea-Bissau has joined the poor countries that enjoy the debt relief benefit after the Paris Club creditors has agreed to immediately cancel US $180 million of the country's debt, the club announced.

Politics | Economy - Development | Society | Human rights | Media
Bissau: “Allow drugs reporting”

afrol News, 4 September - President Joao Bernardo Vieira of Guinea-Bissau has been petitioned over his government’s persistent harassment of journalists for reporting on drug trafficking.

Economy - Development | Politics | Society | Human rights | Media
Bissau journalists forced into hiding

afrol News, 17 August - Guinea-Bissau journalists - Allen Yéro Embalo, Alberto Dabo, Eva Maria Auzenda Biague and Fernando Jorge Pereira - have gone into hiding after they were threatened by top military officers.

Media
Bissau police gets tough on journalists

afrol News, 19 July - In Guinea-Bissau, which lately has experienced very few attacks on press freedom, a special unit of the police prevented a journalist from taking photographs of a police operation and seized the journalist's camera. The press fear tougher times may come.

Politics
Guinea-Bissau installs unity government

afrol News, 18 April - Guinea-Bissau’s newly appointed consensus Prime Minister, Martinho Ndafa Cabi, has reportedly announced his new cabinet line up yesterday. The new government consists of 21 ministers while that of the former Prime Minister, Aristide Gomes, had 20 members.

Politics
Guinea-Bissau President appoints consensus PM

afrol News, 10 April - At last, the Bissau-Guinean President, João Bernardo “Nino” Vieira, succumbed to mountains of pressures of the main opposition parties surrounding the appointment of a consensus Prime Minister for his poverty-stricken country.

Politics
Bissau opposition suspends protests

afrol News / IRIN, 2 April - A coalition of Guinea-Bissau's three leading political parties suspended demonstrations planned for the weekend after President João Bernardo 'Nino' Vieira undertook consultations with political leaders.

Politics
Guinea-Bissau PM resigns

afrol News, 29 March - Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, Aristides Gomes, today did what most African leaders give a try - to tender his resignation, especially at a time when his country is hooked up in political, administrative or economic crisis.

Politics
Bissau records history, parliament unseats govt

afrol News, 22 March - The West African state of Guinea-Bissau recorded what activists described as a healthy political development, as the ruling government of President João Bernardo Vieira lost a vote of confidence in the parliament. Constitutionally, the government should hand over power to a coalition body.

Society | Culture - Arts
Bissau carnivals claim 8 lives

afrol News, 23 February - It has been a tradition for Bissau-Guineans to celebrate the annual carnival, which is usually a moment for explosion of colours, masks and suggestive music, demonstrating a passionate of African and Catholic cultures. But of late, the event has been turned into moments of deaths, mainly as a result of overspeeding and drunkenness, among others causes.

Politics | Society
Political killing in Bissau raises fear of new conflict

afrol News, 9 January - With elections held in Guinea-Bissau, it has been the imagination of many people that Bissau-Guineans will prefer to settle their old wounds and concentrate on building their nation's weak economy, infrastructure as well as ensure good standard of living. Events in the country speak differently as evidenced by the last week's attack on the home of an ex-navy commander in the capital Bissau.

Agriculture - Nutrition | Economy - Development
Guinea-Bissau's cashew crops rot as prices plummet

afrol News / IRIN, 15 November - Piles of cashew nuts painstakingly picked by Bissau-Guinean farmers to sell for cash are going unsold, and the poorest are being hardest hit as the bottom falls out of the market for the product, aid agencies warn. There has already been a registered deterioration in the nutritional situation in the country as a result of the crisis.

Economy - Development | Politics | Society
Spain, Guinea-Bissau sign migration treaty

afrol News, 31 October - The Ministers of Justice of Guinea-Bissau and Spain in Bissau today signed a cooperation memorandum on judicial matters, which is to lead to stronger control of illicit trafficking, including migrants and drugs. Guinea-Bissau earlier this month started receiving Spanish aid to stop illegal migrants.

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