Guinea Bissau

Guinea-Bissau: Special update - United Nations response to the cholera epidemic

Relief Web (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

MAP: Guinea-Bissau Cholera

Alertnet (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008

Source: International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies Cholera outbreak claimed the live of vulnerable people in Guinea Bissau since July 2008 with a total number of 2992 cases and 63 deaths reported at the end of week 34. The situation is getting ...

Ministers take bold steps to address energy crisis in West Africa

Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008

Lagos, Nigeria - Ministers of Energy from West Africa emerged from their one-day meeting in Bissau, Guinea Bissau, Friday resolved to deal, in concrete manner, with the energy crisis in the sub-region. In a communique, issued from the ECOWAS secretariat in Abuja, Nigeria's federal capital, and made available to PANA here, the ministers said they adopted six resolutions which hope would enhance measure...

Construction of China-financed Guinea-Bissau's government building gets underway

People Daily (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008

The ground was broken on Thursday inGuinea-Bissau's capital Bissau to start the construction of the country's government office building, news reaching here said. The project, sponsored by China, will be completed in 20 monthswith an investment of 22 million U.S. dollars. Guinea-Bissau's President Joao Bernardo Vieira and Chinese Ambassador to Guinea-Bissau Yan Banghua co-chaired the foundation stone...

Cholera outbreak: Special update onthe humanitarian situation in Guinea-Bissau

Relief Web (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008

Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Cholera outbreak in Guinea-Bissau: Over 3000 cases reported so far

Relief Web (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008

Date: 29 Aug 2008 Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

Guinea-Bissau: Travel Pictures

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Attending requests, Brigida Rocha Brito [pt] publishes some pictures of Forest of Cantanhez, Tombali region in southern Guinea-Bissau, towards Guiné Conacri borders, and promises more soon. “Next there will be new series of pictures from Bissau and a third one from Cachéu, region in the north near the border with Senegal.”

GUINEA-BISSAU: Security sector reform must go ahead

Global Security (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Recent political instability including the early August dissolution of government could delay long-awaited plans to reform Guinea-Bissau's swollen security sector which could impact the country's long-term security says the president of the national defence institute Baciro Dja.

• Guinea Bissau: Security Sector Reform Must Go Ahead - All Africa
• GUINEA-BISSAU: Security sector reform must go ahead - Alertnet

Guinea Bissau: Cholera Epidemic Claims More Lives

All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008

Up to 3,160 people have now contracted cholera and 73 people have died across the country and health minister Camilo Simoes Lopes told IRIN the authorities are struggling to win the fight again the epidemic.

• GUINEA-BISSAU: Cholera epidemic claims more lives - Alertnet

Strategic Framework for Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau (PBC/3/GNB/L.1)

Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

In a letter dated 11 July 2007, the Government of Guinea-Bissau requested the Secretary-General to place the country on the agenda of the Peacebuilding Commission. The Secretary-General brought this letter to the attention of the Security Council on 26 July 2007. On 11 December 2007, the President of the Security Council wrote to the Chairman of the Commission, requesting its advice on the situation...

Ecowas Ministers of Energy Discuss Regional Integration

All Africa (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

A one-day meeting of ministers of energy from the 15 member states of ECOWAS and UEMOA (Monetary and Economic Union of West Africa) would take place on Friday August 29 in Bissau, the capital of Guinea Bissau.

• West African energy ministers meet in Bissau - Afriquenligne

Cholera outbreak reported in Gambia

Afriquenligne (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008

Banjul, Gambia - Regional Public Health Officer in the Upper River Region in the Gambia and the focal person for disease control, Lamin Ceesay, has reported cholera outbreak in Guinea and Guinea Bissau. Ceesay disclosed that already securitymen at the check-points had been urged to check the health status of all foreigners coming into the country.

UN PEACEKEEPING CHIEFS IN WEST AFRICA KICK OFF TWO-DAY SUMMIT

Stevie Wonder's Personal Blog (Free subscription) | 08/25/2008

UN PEACEKEEPING CHIEFS IN WEST AFRICA KICK OFF TWO-DAY SUMMIT New York, Aug 25 2008 3:10PM The heads of United Nations peacekeeping missions in West Africa today start a two-day meeting in Guinea-Bissau aimed at reviewing regional and national challenges to the success of their mandates. During the two days of discussion, the Special Representatives – from UN Missions in Liberia ( UNMIL) and Côte d'Ivoire...

• West Africa: Peacekeeping Chief Meet for Summit - All Africa
• UN PEACEKEEPING CHIEFS IN WEST AFRICA KICK OFF TWO-DAY SUMMIT - International

Bissau releases on bail Venezuelan crew of drug jet

Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008

Source: Reuters By Alberto Dabo BISSAU, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Guinea Bissau has released on bail the Venezuelan crew of an executive jet suspected of flying cocaine into West Africa, a police source said on Thursday ...

Cholera-hit Bissau urges end to ritual sacrifices

Alertnet (Free subscription) | 08/21/2008

Source: Reuters By Alberto Dabo BISSAU, Aug 21 (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau health officials are urging people to stop sacrificing animals at funerals to help beat a cholera outbreak that has killed at least 59 people ...