Guinea-Bissau News

There are more and more members of the laity that are hearing the call to work on cooperative and missionary projects, dedicating a period of their lives to this work, says the Evangelization of Cultures ...

Police in Sierra Leone have arrested a total of 58 suspects, including a number of foreigners, in connection with Sunday's record cocaine bust in the West African state.

Sierra Leone police have arrested nine foreign nationals, including four Colombians, two Mexicans and an American, following the West African country's largest ever seizure of cocaine, a senior officer said.

It's a quiet night at En'Clave. As I savor a hearty meal of kalulAo - a fish and spinach stew from the island nation of S o TomA© and Principe - and slowly sip on a shot of grog - potent rum from Cape ...

A cholera outbreak in the capital of Guinea Bissau has killed at least four people and infected hundreds more.

Cholera which first broke out in Guinea Bissau in May in the southern region of Tombali has now broken out in the capital Bissau killing four people and infecting 214, according to Daniel Kertesz, ...

The Kenyan parliament Wednesday passed a censure motion on embattled finance minister, Amos Kimunya, who is being investigated for compl i cations in a hotel sales scam.

The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday the current boom in fuel and food prices, the biggest commodity price gain in 30 years, is having an uneven impact and is hurting the world's poorest countries most.

WHAT IS true mainly of the coastal regions of Africa and elsewhere in the world is also true of the Caribbean as a whole - including Jamaica.

Dakar/Brussels, 2 July 2008: The international community must encourage reform tendencies in Guinea-Bissau to counter the risk of the West African country becoming a narco-state and political no-man's-land of ...

To access this report in French , please click here . EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Guinea-Bissau needs a state.

There's need for a united approach by all stakeholders to address the problems of the West Africa region.

ZIGUINCHOR, 8 May 2008 - Armed men claiming to represent the rebel group Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance attacked twenty villagers from Tampe 15 km east of the regional capital Ziguinchor on 7 May ...

British Airways CEO Willie Walsh passed up a $1.5 million bonus this year after the botched opening in March of the ailrine's huge Heathrow terminal.

Once hailed as a potential model for African development, Guinea-Bissau is now one of the poorest countries in the world.

L EADERS of the Economic Community of West African States , who just ended their fourth ordinary session in Abuja, have directed the sub-regional body's commission to concentrate on the development of regional ...

Applauding recent efforts by Guinea-Bissau to bring drug traffickers to justice, the Security Council today urged the West African country's Government to strengthen its international and regional cooperation ...

Civilians are growing increasingly desperate to return to their villages in Casamance, but with violent incidents continuing and the peace process "still at a stalemate" according to peace negotiators, some see ...

Haha, yes, he's completely useless, but adamant! He's one of those classic 'net personalities: the I-make-bold-claims-I-can't-back-up-and-t hen-insist-that-I-am-right-while-insulti ng-those-who- can ...

Marine rescue workers on Friday have been attending to a stranded whale found off Islamorada near mile marker 75.5, covering it with heavy tarp to protect it from the sun.