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Africa prepares for carnival season
afrol News, 1 March - Africa's many carnivals are not the most internationally known, but Cape Verde, Angola, Guinea-Bissau and Mozambique carnivals have long traditions. Newcomer Seychelles this year offers a tourism-adapted carnival.
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Economy - Development
Guinea-Bissau gets power aid from neighbours
afrol News, 30 November - West African neighbours of Guinea-Bissau have decided to sponsor the impoverished country with an emergency power supply worth US$ 10 million. Power supply is extremely erratic in Guinea-Bissau.
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Economy - Development
Slow growth in Guinea-Bissau
afrol News, 29 September - The economy of Guinea-Bissau just does not want to take off. For years to come, per capita GDP growth is projected to be minimal, a new analysis shows.
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Politics
Guinea-Bissau could head towards new chaos
afrol News, 8 July - Years of struggle to provide Guinea-Bissau with political stability and economic progress may be at stake if the country's uneasy military forces are not brought under control, the UN warns.
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Economy - Development
Creditors give Guinea-Bissau 3-year break
afrol News, 6 July - Guinea-Bissau, facing acute problems down-paying its debts, was given a break until the end of 2012 by its major creditors. Also, a part of the impoverished country's debts were cancelled.
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Politics
Guinea-Bissau PM denies being sacked
afrol News, 8 June - Carlos Gomes Júnior, embattled Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau, had to deny local press reports that his government had been sacked. The continued power struggle now will get international mediators.
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Politics
ECOWAS troops threaten Guinea-Bissau mutineers
afrol News, 6 April - The weekend mutiny in chronically unstable Guinea-Bissau, with a brief detention of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, is strongly condemned by the regional body ECOWAS. The body threatens to intervene militarily if Bissau troops continue to jeopardise democracy.
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Society
"Model police" for Guinea-Bissau
afrol News, 24 March - Guinea-Bissau, which recently has become a drug transfer country, is aiming at reforming its police units into a "model" force. A strong community component is to improve trust in the police.
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Politics
"Window of opportunity for Guinea-Bissau"
afrol News, 5 March - Following the upheaval experienced in 2009 when a series of political assassinations threatened security and stability in Guinea-Bissau, "current conditions bode well for progress towards peace and prosperity" in the West African nation, a top UN official said today.
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Economy - Development | Politics | Society
Security reforms crucial for Guinea-Bissau, UN report
afrol News, 4 March - Security sector reform remains the most crucial element to ensuring stability in Guinea-Bissau. This is according to a new United Nations report, which calls on the international community to support the country’s efforts towards this goal.
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Society
Guinea-Bissau role as drug hub declining
afrol News, 5 November - According to UN sources, Guinea-Bissau with the help of European security forces is slowly losing importance as a centre for drug trafficking. The drug mafia is not anymore threatening the entire state apparatus.
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» 15.05.2009 - Guinea Bissau gets international support for elections
» 15.04.2009 - Two ex-Presidents in Guinea-Bissau polls
» 01.04.2009 - Bissau troops crackdown on critics
» 04.03.2009 - Bissau’s interim president affirms democratic rule
» 03.03.2009 - ECOWAS delegation to Bissau
» 02.03.2009 - Fears of a coup in Bissau subsiding, but..!
» 02.03.2009 - Bissau president killed by army
» 06.01.2009 - Bissau Army confirms attack on chief of staff
» 26.11.2008 - UN Security Council calls for peaceful solutions in Guinea-Bissau
» 24.11.2008 - Bissau presidential guards foil a coup
» 21.11.2008 - Optimism in Guinea-Bissau after successful polls
» 24.10.2008 - EU respond to Guinea-Bissau's cholera epidemic
» 16.10.2008 - UN welcomes Guinea-Bisaau election process
» 01.10.2008 - Bissau death toll escalates
» 19.09.2008 - Bissau cholera outbreak kills 122
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