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updated: Fri Jul 18, 2008 04:12 am

Guinea-Bissau News

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EUROPE/PORTUGAL - The number of Portuguese lay volunteers that collaborate in missionary and ...

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 ...

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Wed Jul 16, 2008

Sunday Times

Drug bust in Sierra Leone

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.

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Mon Jul 14, 2008

Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Nine arrested over Sierra Leone cocaine bust

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.

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Sun Jul 13, 2008

Salt Lake Tribune

Looking for Africa in the heart of Lisbon

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 ...

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Fri Jul 11, 2008

Voice of America

Cholera Outbreak in Guinea Bissau Blamed on Poor Infrastructure

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

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Thu Jul 10, 2008

IRIN News

GUINEA-BISSAU: Cholera epidemic reaches capital, Bissau

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, ...

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Wed Jul 09, 2008

Panapress

.com features news,analyses,and roundups of events in and about Africa

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.

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Mon Jul 07, 2008

Voice of America

IMF Says Africa Groans Under Rising Food, Energy Prices

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.

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Sat Jul 05, 2008

Jamaica Gleaner

Patois Bible in Pan-African and Pan-Caribbean context

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.

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Thu Jul 03, 2008

International Crisis Group

142 GuinAŠe-Bissau : Besoin d'Etat

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 ...

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Wed Jul 02, 2008

International Crisis Group

Guinea-Bissau: In Need of a State

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

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Tue Jul 01, 2008

United Nations Radio

UN aims to strengthen international legal cooperation in West Africa to fight drugs and crime

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

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IRIN

Villagers mutilated by armed men in Casamance

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 ...

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Mon Jun 30, 2008

News.lycos.com

An Abandoned Oasis Of American Comfort In Tiny Guinea-Bissau

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.

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BBC

Country profile: Guinea-Bissau

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

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Sat Jun 28, 2008

Guardian Newspapers

ECOWAS leaders task commission on energy, rail, others

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 ...

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Thu Jun 26, 2008

NewsBlaze

Guinea-Bissau's Efforts Against Drug Trade Must Continue - Security Council

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 ...

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Wed Jun 25, 2008

AllAfrica.com

Senegal: Finding Incentives for Peace in Casamance

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 ...

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Mon Jun 23, 2008

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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 ...

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Sat Jun 21, 2008

CBS4

Marine Rescue Workers Cover A Whale Found Stranded Off Islamorada

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.

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