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Drugs and Crime Threaten Recent Stability, Warn UN Officials

The prospects for political stability in Guinea-Bissau appear to be good but are threatened by drug trafficking and organized crime, United Nations officials warned the Security Council today.

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UN warns emerging armies of drug addicts in Guinea-Bissau

New York - Drug use by Guinea-Bissau's military has increased, which could result in armies of addicts threatening security as well as development, the UN said Thursday. Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, s...

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Country Closer to Political Stability, Security - UN

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has expressed cautious optimism over the progress of democracy in Guinea Bissau, where a series of political assassinations earlier this year threatened stability in the impoverished West African country.

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Guinea Bissau: Planning Families, Saving Lives

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.

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GUINEA-BISSAU: Security sector reform still lagging

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 parliament.

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ECOWAS Grants Guinea Bissau $3.5 Million to Pay Soldiers Salaries

Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) leaders yesterday resolved to grant Guinea Bissau $3.5 million dollars to clear arrears of salaries owed members of her armed forces with a view to creating a conducive atmosphere for the country's presidential election slated for June 28, and ensuring durable peace and security in the country. ECOWAS will also provide another $350 000 to plug the funding...

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"L'insécurité pourrait avoir dissuadé les organisations de développement d'intervenir dans le nord "

D'après un responsable des Nations Unies qui a requis l'anonymat, les problèmes de logistique, l'incapacité du gouvernement et la concentration des ONG dans les zones plus peuplées de Gabu et Bafata et dans la capitale, Bissau, contribuent, plus que l'insécurité, à limiter les interventions dans les zones isolées.

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Beyond Cashews and Rice

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.

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Guinea Bissau: Fighting Crime Without Police or Prisons

Loosening organized crime's grip on Guinea-Bissau is a priority, top government officials say. But the country has no prisons and the Bijagos islands, a drug-trafficking hub off of the capital Bissau, has no judiciary police and no communications or surveillance equipment.

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Driving Home the Cholera Message

In Bafata, Guinea-Bissau, children go door-to-door counting mosquito nets, monitoring hand-washing and checking the distance between kitchens and latrines. The activities are among efforts by health NGOs and authorities to fill the gap between cholera-prevention messages and behaviour, after a 2008 epidemic killed some 220 people and infected at least 13,000.

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Guinea Bissau: Mine-Free Farms for the First Time Since 1974

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.

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Guinea Bissau/Kenya: World Cup Treat for Country

The Coca-Cola/Fifa World Cup Trophy Tour party lands in Guinea Bissau on Friday on its journey around Africa in the build-up to next year's World Cup finals in South Africa.

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No Impunity for Political Killers, Says President

Determining who is responsible for a series of assassinations of senior political and military figures in Guinea-Bissau earlier this year is essential to consolidating the rule of law in the troubled West African country, its Prime Minister told the General Assembly today as he pledged that there would be no impunity for the perpetrators.

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Guinea-Bissau PM Tells the United Nations That Political Assassins Will be Brought to Justice

Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr. told the United Nations General Assembly on Saturday, that determining who is responsible for a series of assassinations of senior political and military figures in Guinea- Bissau earlier this year, is essential to consolidating the rule of law in his country, pledging that there would be no impunity for [...]

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Guinea Bissau: UN Peacebuilding Official Voices Hope for Stability

A window of opportunity exists to consolidate peace in Guinea-Bissau, a senior official reported to the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission (PBC).