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| | Background Notes Archive - Africa |
 | | The administrative capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal. | | | A dispute with Great Britain over the island of Bolama was settled in Portugal's favor with the involvement of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant. | | | France, Portugal, Brazil, Egypt, Nigeria, Taiwan, Libya, Cuba, Sweden, the Palestine Liberation Organization, Russia, and the U.S. have diplomatic offices in Bissau. |
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http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/bgnotes/af/guineabissau9404.html
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| | Bissau News |
| | Bissau, Guinea-Bissau, 08/20 - Supreme Court president Maria de Ceu Monteiro Friday declared that claims by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea... | | | BISSAU (Reuters) - The second round of a vote to choose a new president in Guinea-Bissau after two years of transitional government will be held on July 24... | | | The runoff election results were confirmed on August 19 by the Supreme Court of Justice of Guinea-Bissau. |
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http://www.news.daylightonline.com/2005-03/Bissau.html
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| | Africa 2001 |
| | At the end of the summer, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the president's decision to expel members of the Ahmadiyya Islamic sect, whom he had accused of causing instability. | | | The president sacked four Supreme Court judges for alleged corruption, vowed to replace the majority of the country's civil servants with members of his own party, and threatened to shoot any politician who tried to use the army against him. | | | On November 14, Joao de Barros, publication director of Diario de Bissau, was arrested and briefly detained at police headquarters. |
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http://www.cpj.org/attacks01/africa01/guinea-bis.html
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| | The monopoly of Portugal Telecom Internacional, which is granted by law is a bottleneck to the development because it forbids the use of basic network without prior consent by PTI. | | | Guinea Telecom (GT), owned 51% by Portugal Telecom International (PTI) has monopoly over all telecommunications. | | | UUCP is used by some, such as SITEC, in exchanging mail with the United States as long as other solutions (own mail server in Bissau) are not possible or not affordable. |
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http://members.tripod.com/%7Egambuzino/e6.htm
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| | Bissau, Guinea-Bissau - Current News & Information |
| | Guinea Bissau : Woman Chosen As New Head of Supreme Court Jan 27, 2004 | | | Maria do Ceu Silva Monteiro, a 38-year-old woman judge, has been appointed president of the supreme court of Guinea-Bissau, filling a post that had been vacant... | | | They were President Amadou Toumani Toure of Mali, Abdoulaye Wade of Senegal, Pedro Verona Pires, Cape Verde and Henrique Perrera of Guinea Bissau and Laurent... |
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http://www.4newz.net/world/am/Bissau.html
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| | Guinea-Bissau. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | In 1991 the national assembly officially revoked the PAIGC’s status as the sole legal party, and in 1994 Vieira was chosen as president in the country& first free elections. | | | After some years of sporadic violence, the PAIGC launched a war of independence in Portuguese Guinea in the early 1960s; in 1973 it declared the province, renamed Guinea-Bissau, independent of Portugal. | | | A government was established and elections for a national assembly were held in PAIGC-controlled areas. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/gu/GuineaBi.html
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| | GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: Guinea-Bissau |
| | Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments: Guinea- Bissau (U.S. Central Intelligence Agency) |
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http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/guineabissau.html
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| | Guinea-Bissau News |
| | Former Guinea Bissau president Malam Bacai Sanha, who is standing again for the post, will not accept the results of last weekend's run-off election due to "flagrant acts of fraud," his campaign manager said on... | | | The first Vietnamese delegation to visit the United States in 30 years came to Washington D.C. on June 20, but their first stop wasn't the White House. | | | Final results from the July 24 Guinea Bissau presidential election confirmed victory for former military ruler Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira over... |
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http://www.topix.net/world/guinea-bissau
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| | Guinea Bissau Travel Guide @ TravelNotes.org |
| | Within 60 years Guinea Bissau became independent, helped in part by the overthrow of the dictatorship in Portugal during the early 1970's. | | | Guinea-Bissau is serviced by Air Bissau and TAP Air Portugal. | | | Nuno Tristão, a Portuguese slave trader, visited the area in 1446, but a Portuguese trading post wasn't established at Bissau until 1687. |
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http://www.travelnotes.org/Africa/guinea_bissau.htm
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| | Government and Politics in Africa |
| | The Status of Human Rights Organizations in Sub-Saharan Africa: Guinea from The University of Minnesota |
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http://www.keele.ac.uk/depts/por/afbase.htm
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| | Guinea Bissau |
| | This objective was halted by a coup in 1980 in Guinea-Bissau in which General Joao Bernardo Vieira replaced Luiz Cabral as President. | | | Troops from Senegal and Guinea were called in to help forces loyal to President Vieira. | | | A new Government of National Unity was sworn in on 20 February. |
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http://us-africa.tripod.com/guineabis.html
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| | The History Guy:Guinea Bissau Civil War |
| | --Elections were held and the new civilian government of President Kumba Yalla (the first democratically elected leader in Bissau history) took power in February 2000. | | | Vieira's Presidential Guard was formed from members of his own ethnic group, the Pepel. | | | The rebels failed to oust the government, which then received significant aid from neighboring Senegal and Guinea-Conakry. |
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http://www.historyguy.com/Guinea_Bissau_Civil_War.html
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| | Guinea Bissau: Mapas, Datos del Pais, Etnologia, Historia, Noticias, Idiomas, Musica, ... |
| | En 1879, Portugal declaró Guinea Bissau como una provincia portuguesa. | | | En los años 10 siguientes, el nuevo gobierno republicano de Portugal, con la ayuda Fulani y el envío masivo de tropas consiguió conquistar la mayoría de la tierra. | | | No será hasta alrededor del siglo X, cuando las guerras, la pobreza, y las cambios climáticos empujaron a nuevos grupos étnicos a dirigirse hacia la actual Guinea Bissau. |
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http://ikuska.com/Africa/Paises/guinea_bissau.htm
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| | Guinea-Bissau president to be put on trial |
| | The Prime Minister, Francisco Fadul, told French radio that elections scheduled under the peace agreement for March had been delayed, to allow time to conduct a new census of voters and for refugees to return to Guinea-Bissau. | | | Government figures estimate that 8,500 citizens of Guinea-Bissau were still out of the country, including 3,500 in Portugal and others in Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea and Senegal. | | | This includes 5,415 Senegalese refugees dispersed in the northern frontier areas and approximately 750 grouped at the Jolmette refugee camp, some 200 kilometres east of the capital, Bissau. |
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http://www.wsws.org/articles/1999/apr1999/guin-a27.shtml
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| | Agreement: Guinea-Bissau: Peace Agreements: Library and Links: U.S. Institute of Peace |
| | The parties to the conflict in Guinea Bissau meeting in Abuja, Nigeria on 21 October and 1st November 1998 in the context of the efforts of the 21st Summit of the Authority of the Heads of State and Government of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), | | | Agreement Between the Government of Guinea Bissau and the Self-Proclaimed Military Junta | | | This withdrawal shall be done simultaneously with the deployment of an ECOMOG interposition force which will take over from the withdrawn forces. |
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http://www.usip.org/library/pa/gb/gb_11011998.html
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| | Guinea-Bissau - Atlapedia Online |
| | The war for independence began in 1962 and by 1973 the National People's Assembly declared the province to be an independent nation called Guinea-Bissau with Luiz Cabral as President. | | | MODERN HISTORY - WWII TO 1993: During the 1950's and 1960's an independence movement swept across Africa. | | | Average annual precipitation in Bissau is 1,950 mm (77 inches) while average temperature ranges are from 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) to 27 degrees Celsius (81 degrees Fahrenheit) all year. |
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http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/guin_bis.htm
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| | Guinea-Bissau |
| | The Constitution provides for these rights; however, the Government limited them in practice. | | | Authorities also restricted travel and confiscated the passport of Caetano N'Tchama, the President of the Administrative Court who issued the court order to reopen Radio Bombolom (see Section 2.a.). | | | Prior to September 14, the Government compiled a list of prominent political figures who were not allowed to leave the country or the city of Bissau, including: Carlos Vamin, Francisca Vaz Turpin, Helder Vaz, Domingos Fernandes, Alexandre Bucansil Cabral, and former Prime Minister Alamara Intchia Nhasse. |
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http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27732.htm
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| | Guinea - Bissau on the Internet, Guiné-Bissau, Guinée-Bissau |
| | International Court of Justice (The Hague, Netherlands) - Guinea Bissau | | | Has a draft version of a case study (55 pages) by Korver (while at the Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen) on the development of e-mail and the internet in Guinea-Bissau. | | | Volumes may be borrowed thru interlibrary loan by U.S. libraries. |
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http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/guin-bis.html
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| | Guinea-Bissau |
| | Following a period of military rule, Kumba Yalá, a former teacher and popular leader of Guinea-Bissau's independence movement, was elected president in 2000. | | | In his 19 years of rule, Vieira was criticized for crony capitalism and corruption and for failing to alleviate the poverty of Guinea-Bissau, one of the world's poorest countries. | | | Vieira also brought in troops from Senegal and the Republic of Guinea to help fight against an insurgency movement, a highly unpopular act. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107604.html
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| | Economic Community of West African States |
| | Senegal's President, Abdoulaye Wade, is the current ECOWAS Chairman. | | | The five states -- The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, -- which signed the 2000 Accra Declaration for the creation of the second monetary zone agreed to reform their economies to meet specific targets prior to the introduction of the Eco. | | | The AfDB has also issued a $2.13 million grant to finance the study on electricity production and transmission to the member states of the Organization for the Development of the River Gambia (OMVG), a regional organization whose members are the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Senegal. |
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http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/cabs/ghana.html
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| | Guinea-Bissau - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | Guinea Bissau: A Spy Guide (World Foreign Policy and Government Library) | | | Though the rivers and coast of this area were among the first places colonized by the Portuguese, and they began the slave trade in the 17th century, they did not explore the interior until the 19th century. | | | Bissau (Note: Former President Kumba Yala decided to change the capital city to Buba, but the plan is unlikely to go forward.) |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/guinea-bissau.htm
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| | Guinea-Bissau, Landmine Monitor Report 2003 |
| | Emergency and first aid is almost non-existent in the country. | | | Some MRE is already part of some public school programs, and should be formally integrated to the school curriculum for the school years 2002-2003/2003-2004. | | | Guinea-Bissau is divided into ten medical regions but there is only one national hospital, the Simão Mendes Hospital in Bissau, and four regional hospitals, in Canchungo, Bafatá, Gabu and Catio. |
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http://www.icbl.org/lm/2003/guinea_bissau.html
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| | WTO Guinea Bissau - Member information |
| | Guinea Bissau has been a member of WTO since 31 May 1995. | | | This page gathers key information on Guinea Bissau's participation in the WTO. | | | Provides consolidated texts: click “predefined reports” and select “All sectors in each country”, then double-click Guinea Bissau. |
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http://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/countries_e/guinea_bissau_e.htm
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| | Guinea-Bissau A hospital for Africa |
| | In June 1998, as a result of inner conflicts in the government, an armed struggle began between the President, Nino Vieira, supported by troops from Senegal and Guinea Conakry, and the chief of General Staff Ansumane Manè, supported by 80% of the national army and a good part of the population... | | | These patients were transferred in the hospital of Cumura (30 km from Bissau) immediately after... | | | The hospital was not spared by the conflict: some patients and members of the staff of the hospital lost their lives during the evacuation of the more seriously ill patients. |
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http://www.santegidio.org/en/amicimondo/bissau
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| | CNN.com - Army patrols Guinea-Bissau capital after clashes with rebel troops - November 23, 2000 |
| | The Portuguese embassy had received reports that army units also were gathering near an air base on the outskirts of the city where Brig. | | | Induta said the army had arrested the commander of the region, Augusto Mario Co, who was in Bissau, though he provided no details. | | | Army spokesman Capt. Zamora Induta told state radio the army controlled all rural areas of the small West African country except the central zone, according to Lusa. |
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http://cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/11/23/guinea.bissau.ap/index.html
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| | Guinea-Bissau Letter of Intent, November 24, 1999 |
| | In particular, 11 tax comptrollers have been installed in the decentralized administrations, such as the port, the forestry fund, the road fund, the passport office, and the civil courts. | | | Inflation has declined considerably in recent months; the Bissau consumer price index, which had risen by 19 percent between January and November 1998, fell by 13 percent between November 1998 and May 1999, mainly owing to the improvement in the food supply that followed the end of the conflict. | | | Tax collection offices have become more efficient, two decentralized collection offices have been opened in Bissau, and measures have been taken to centralize revenue and reduce tax evasion, especially at customs. |
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http://www.imf.org/external/NP/LOI/1999/112399.HTM
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| | An MBendi Profile: Guinea-Bissau - Overview |
| | The principal airline flying to Guinea-Bissau is Air Portugal. | | | A number of regional airlines also serve the international airport at Bissau. | | | Guinea-Bissau is a small independent republic which lies on the bulge of Africa to the north of Guinea and forms part of the West African Region. |
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http://mbendi.co.za/cygbcy.htm
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| | Guinea-Bissau |
| | The country underwent a civil war in 1998-99 that devastated the economy. | | | Since there are minefields left over from the civil war and the war of independence, travelers should not leave designated roads and pathways. | | | The national de-mining center (CAAMI) in Bissau is responsible for de-mining operations and maintains lists of known minefields. |
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http://travel.state.gov/travel/guinea-bissau.html
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| | ABC News: Former Dictator Wins Guinea-Bissau Vote |
| | BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau Aug 10, 2005 &; A former Guinea-Bissau dictator was confirmed the official winner Wednesday of this African nation's presidential runoff, according to final election results. | | | Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira had appeared sure of victory since last month, when the West African country's national electoral commission said provisional results had given him the edge over rival Malam Bacai Sanha. |
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http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1027274
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| | Africanet - GUINEA-BISSAU |
| | By the early 1970's approximately three quarters of the country had been liberated. | | | The Portuguese armed forces had been confined to Bissau, the capital, and a number of smaller towns and military posts. | | | Efforts were made to revive the war-torn agricultural sector by peasants in the liberated areas; political and material support was given to the peasants. |
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http://www.africanet.com/africanet/country/guinea-b/history.htm
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| | African Studies: Guinea Bissau |
| | The World Bank on Guinea Bissau (Washington, DC) | | | United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Guinea Bissau (Geneva, Switzerland) | | | The International Monetary Fund: Guinea Bissau Country Info (Washington, DC) |
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http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/GBissau.html
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| | CNN.com - Senegal extends Guinea-Bissau border blockade - September 3, 2000 |
| | "Vehicles from Senegal could not enter Guinea-Bissau," the driver added, after returning to the capital Bissau with his passengers. | | | Villagers and officials in southern Senegal, which has been a regular target of raids by separatist rebels or armed robbers, first blockaded the border in early August in protest of the attacks. | | | A Senegalese bush taxi driver who spent Friday at the main crossing at Mpaques on the western end of the border told Reuters that the Senegalese side had been closed. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/africa/09/03/bissau.senegal.reut/index.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Guinea-Bissau |
| | The major ethnic groups are the Balante, Fulani, Mandinka (also known as Mandingo or Malinke), Mandyako, and Pepel. | | | Guinea-Bissau, republic in northwestern Africa, bounded on the north by Senegal, on the east and south by Guinea, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean. | | | The capital and principal port, Bissau, has a population (2001 estimate) of 292,000. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761569703
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| | Freedom in the World 2001 - 2002 |
| | An army mutiny broke out in 1998 after Vieira sacked General Ansumane Mané, accusing him of smuggling arms to rebels in the southern Casamance region of neighboring Senegal, which for years had complained that Guinea-Bissau was backing the rebels. | | | They were eventually replaced by fewer than 600 unarmed West African peacekeepers, which made Vieira vulnerable to his overthrow in May 1999 by Mané. | | | Encouraged by France, about 3,000 troops from Senegal and Guinea intervened on behalf of Vieira. |
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http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2002/countryratings/guineabissau.htm
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| | Guinea-Bissau Travel Information Lonely Planet Destination Guide |
| | This is the closest island to Bissau and the main town, also called Bolama, has been a good illustration... | | | Ravaged by protracted struggles for independence, civil conflict and guerrilla warfare, Guinea-Bissau is slowly rising up from the rubble. | | | You should verify critical information (like visas, health and safety, customs and transportation) with the relevant authorities before you travel. |
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http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/africa/guinea_bissau
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| | Bissau, Guinea-Bissau current local time |
| | This site specializes in keeping up with local laws and declarations that affect time zone rules and daylight saving time adjustments, so you can always depend on our accuracy. | | | A comprehensive list of other locations in addition to Bissau, Guinea-Bissau is also available which you can view current time by country name or by city name. | | | You can even create a list of your favorite locations where you have business or personal interests. |
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http://www.worldtimeserver.com/time.asp?locationid=GW&city=Bissau
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| | Guinea Bissau Newspapers : Newspapers from Guinea Bissau : Guinea Bissau News |
| | Guinea Bissau newspapers for information on local issues, politics, events, celebrations, people and business. | | | Guinea Bissau Newspapers : Newspapers from Guinea Bissau : Guinea Bissau News | | | Please EMAIL US if you know of any new online newspapers or those on our lists where the address has changed. |
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http://www.onlinenewspapers.com/guineabi.htm
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| | Country Profile - Guinea-Bissau |
| | This Ministry is responsible for elaborating the governments' policy on women and for providing support to women's organizations. | | | With the assistance of United Nations agencies in the elaboration of health plans, and with support from international and national NGOs, the Ministry of Public Health is carrying out projects on family health in several neighbourhoods of Bissau. | | | There are four cities in the country, Bissau, Bafatá, Gabú and Bolama, which need additional raw materials, energy, and basic infrastructure to meet the increasing needs of their populations. |
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| | Ashoka: Guinea-Bissau |
| | Ashoka's Guinea-Bissau program is managed by the Ashoka office for the Sahel-West Africa region, based in Dakar, Senegal. | | | Below, Ashoka Fellows in Guinea Bissau are listed alphabetically by last name. |
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http://www.ashoka.org/global/aw_africa_guinea.cfm?country=78&order=name
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| | Guinea Bissau |
| | Guinea Bissau also have a Coast guard, G. Marítima, whose plane have a national flag as fin flash. | | | Força Aérea da Guiné-Bissau was formed in 1978 and since it foundation use a black 5 points star on red disc as roundel. |
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| | Guinea-Bissau |
| | 1879 Bissau and Cacheu united as Portuguese Guinea | | | Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde, marxist, only legal party 1974-1991, to 1980 pro-union with Cape Verde); PRS = Partido para a Renovaçao Social (Party for Social Renewal, progressive); Mil = Military | | | Apr 1931 - 2 May 1931 Loyal to the military junta in Madiera, |
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| | Maps_Of_Guinea_Bissau |
| | Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection - Guinea Bissau - (Political) 1993 (220k) | | | MapQuest - Map of Guinea Bissau - Absolutely amazing maps of the world in which you can continually zoom in on and and re-center. | | | Atlapedia Online - Maps of Guinea Bissau - You can see two high definition maps of the Republic of Guinea Bissau, one political and the other physical. |
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http://www.embassyworld.com/maps/Maps_Of_Guinea_Bissau.html
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| | Timeline Guinea-Bissau |
| | Rebels led by Ansumane Mane had just staged a coup to end the 18-year rule of Pres. | | | 1998 Jun 9, Senegal and Guinea sent troops to aid Pres. | | | Ansumane Mane was fired amid allegations of smuggling arms to separatists in Senegal. |
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http://timelines.ws/countries/GUINEA_BISSAU.HTML
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| | Guinea, Africa Travel Guide |
| | The Republic of Guinea, on the west coast of Africa is bordered to the north by Senegal and Mali and on the east by Mali and the Ivory Coast, on the south by Liberia and Sierra Leone, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the northwest by Guinea-Bissau. | | | Guinea owes its frontiers mainly to the accidents of the late 19th century partition of Africa and has no geographic unity. | | | Road map of Gabon with place name index and town map of Libreville. |
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http://www.africaguide.com/country/guinea
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| | CIA - The World Factbook -- Guinea-Bissau |
| | Guinea-Bissau's transition back to democracy will be complicated by its crippled economy, devastated in the civil war. | | | 9 regions (regioes, singular - regiao); Bafata, Biombo, Bissau, Bolama, Cacheu, Gabu, Oio, Quinara, Tombali; note - Bolama may have been renamed Bolama/Bijagos | | | Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea and Senegal |
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http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/pu.html
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