Guinea-Bissau News Archives

In West Africa, the coast is more than just a simple marker between land and sea.

Contraceptive use is on the rise in both urban and rural areas in Guinea-Bissau, as access to reproductive and infant healthcare improves and family planning messages start to sink in, say health officials and UN staff.

The government of Guinea-Bissau must work on several fronts to cut the number of light weapons in the country - " estimated at some 650,000. Regional instability, crime and weak governance toughen the battle, observers say.

International donors are working with the President's office and the ministries of justice , defence and of the Interior to reform the security sector BISSAU, 27 October 2009 - In Guinea-Bissau security sector reform remains stalled but donors say the necessary laws are being written and it is now up to the government to get them through ...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met on Wednesday with Prime Minister of Guinea Bissau Carlos Gomesat the Miraflores Palace on bilateral ties.

Caracas, Oct 21 President of Guinea Bissau Carlos Gomes ratified on Wednesday the African nations'' willingness to strengthen relations with South America in the wake of signing seven cooperation agreements with Venezuela.

The International Committee of the Red Cross might seem out of place running agricultural diversification projects in northern Guinea-Bissau, given its mandate to help people in times of conflict and violence.

Aid agencies are encouraging communities to diversify their agricultural production in Guinea-Bissau, where 90 percent of farmers grow rice or cashews to survive, making them vulnerable to erratic rainfall and price fluctuations.

Few among us can claim to have delivered a baby in the back of a four-by-four in a remote west African village.

Senegalese authorities failed to attend a border meeting on Wednesday aimed at easing tensions with neighbour Guinea-Bissau that have led to a military build-up in the region, officials said.

Cholera outbreaks in West Africa generally trigger extra hand-washings in households and panic-buying of bleach for treating water.

Havana, Oct 18 President Raul Castro met with Guinea Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes who pays an official visit to Cuba that ends this Sunday.

Havana. October 13, 2009 Machado Ventura receives Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau FIRST Vice President JosA© RamA3n Machado Ventura received Prime Minister Carlos Gomes of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau on Monday morning, as the latter began an official visit to our country.

Loosening organized crime's grip on Guinea-Bissau is a priority, top government officials say.

BISSAU, 15 October 2009 - In Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, children go door-to-door counting mosquito nets, monitoring hand-washing and checking the distance between kitchens and latrines.

FOR their first foray away from the nest, it's been quite a journey. Two osprey chicks who left Scotland in August on their first migration have reached Africa.

Havana, Oct 12 Premier of Guinea Bissau Carlos Gomes stressed the ties of solidarity and cooperation that join that African nation with Cuba, where he is carrying out an official visited, invited by the island's government.

Havana, Oct 12 The First Vice President of the Councils of State and Ministers, Jos Ramn Machado Ventura, received Monday Guinea Bissau Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes, on an official visit to this country.

Exposure to a certain class of antidepressant medications during pregnancy may put a baby at risk for preterm birth, a low five-minute Apgar score and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit, according to a recent report.

Havana, Oct 11 The Prime Minister of Guinea-Bissau Carlos Gomes is expected to arrive on Sunday in Cuba for a state visit, invited by the Cuban goverment.

Havana, Oct 10 Guinea Bissau''s Prime Minister Carlos Gomes will arrive in Havana on Sunday for an official visit.

For 35 years, hundreds of villagers living in Suar in the Cacheu region of northern Guinea-Bissau have been too scared to cultivate the land around their villages for fear of landmines.

Newborns who have been exposed in utero to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors taken by their mothers are at higher risk for shorter gestational age, preterm delivery and admission to a neonatal intensive care unit, according to a study in the October Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

Exposure to a certain class of antidepressant medications during pregnancy may be associated with an increased risk of preterm birth, a low five-minute Apgar score and admission to the neonatal intensive care unit, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine , one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

DANISH women who took antidepressants during pregnancy had twice the risk of pre-term delivery as other women, and their babies were more likely to be admitted to an intensive care unit than those of women who did not take the drugs, researchers reported overnight.

Six Senegalese soldiers have been killed in an attack apparently carried out by former rebels from the separatist Casamance Movement of Democratic Forces, military officials said Saturday.

A military official says that six Senegalese soldiers have been killed and three wounded in an attack near the border of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau. Col.

The velvet-covered sofas of the X Club in Bissau were until recently part of the cocaine trail from South America to Europe.

In Africa, three countries are known as Guinea this or Guinea that. There is Guinea-Conakry, where according to news reports, soldiers have killed 157 protesters; then there is Guinea-Bissau and the oil-rich Equatorial Guinea.