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Stories about Guinea-Bissau
4 December 2015
Why Doesn't It Rain in Guinea-Bissau Like It Used To?
While world leaders discuss climate change in Paris, the decrease in rainfall and sea level rise are threatening the soil fertility and the subsistence of the people of Guinea-Bissau.
7 August 2015
Is Another Political Crisis Looming in Guinea-Bissau?
After coups in 2010 and 2012, a new political crisis between the President and Prime Minister is looming in Guinea-Bissau.
20 April 2014
18 April 2014
Voters Turn Out En Masse in Guinea-Bissau's First Post-Coup Elections
About 400 citizen observers monitored elections, which are expected to put an end to the crisis that began two years ago with a military coup in Guinea-Bissau.
15 January 2014
16 October 2013
‘Thinking with Our Own Heads, Walking with Our Own Feet’ in Guinea-Bissau
Youth collective Movement of Citizen Action was created last year to channel indignation in Guinea-Bissau.
14 October 2013
Fresh Air for Guinea-Bissau: A Country in Search of Prosperity
In a country isolated by coups d'etat, political tensions and economic imbalances, what are the future alternatives for the people of Guinea-Bissau?
11 October 2013
10 September 2013
22 May 2013
18 April 2013
15 April 2013
Guinea-Bissau President Caught up in ‘Arms for Drugs’ Conspiracy
A drug and arms trafficking scheme in Guinea Bissau appears to go straight to the top. On the eve of the first anniversary of a military coup in Guinea Bissau...
25 March 2013
Nine Street Kids Die in Senegal Quran School Fire
A raging fire that broke out in Dakar, Senegal in a crowded Islamic school room where students were sleeping killed at least nine children on the night of Sunday 3...
21 March 2013
19 February 2013
14 February 2013
7 February 2013
Panic and Terror Walk Hand-in-Hand in Guinea-Bissau
As the world's attention is focused on another part of West Africa, the citizens of Guinea-Bissau struggle to bring a worsening human rights situation to regional and international attention. Guinean...
11 January 2013
Nobel Peacemaker Ramos Horta's Mission to Guinea Bissau
The political chaos in which Guinea Bissau finds itself embroiled - and more so since the April 2012 coup d'etat - may be a little closer to finding a resolution...
