Guinea-Bissau News

Jean Gregoire Sagbo has just made history as Russia's first Black elected official.

"[H]umanitarian watchdog Development Initiatives outlines some of the needs, responses and funding trends" in humanitarian aid over the past decade in its 2010 Global Humanitarian Assistance report , IRIN writes in an article that examines the organization's findings.

This week, the European Union is expected to announce whether it will finally ax a military reform program that has been "a textbook example of the failures of security sector reform," according to Alex Vines, Africa Program head at the London think tank Chatham House.

Sillenger Exploration Corp. , is pleased to report that the details of next month's visit to Canada by the Government delegation from the Republic of Guinea-Bissau have been formalized, and the Company looks forward to hosting the delegation in Toronto during the week of August 8 through August 14.

The dioceses of Guinea-Bissau are organising a course 2 - 27 August, for recently arrived missionaries, we read in a statement sent to Fides.

Dakar - Guinea-Bissau Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior on Tuesday barred officials from taking trips abroad and from buying cars costing more than 30 000 euros in a bid to cut state spending.

" China has devised a novel strategy to relieve pressure on its overcrowded prisons: employ convicts as laborers on overseas projects in the developing world.

Unseen, unheard; no one should be the bearer of these two words. Unfortunately, Africa is often in the forefront of this association.

People in this Russian town used to stare at Jean Gregoire Sagbo because they had never seen a black man.

CAREFULLY picking his way along a narrow alleyway and stepping over a broken sewage pipe in Guinea-Bissau, police commandant Augusto Nhanga points up at the metal grill above him.

The U.N. Security Council is urging impoverished Guinea-Bissau to tackle the growing drug trade which it says is threatening peace and security in the West African nation and neighbouring countries.

U.S. Ambassador to the Republics of Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, Marcia S. Bernicat; Diplomatic Advisor to the Prime Minister of the Republic of Senegal, Abdou Salam Diallo; and Managing Director for Construction, Facility and Security Management of the Bureau of Overseas Buildings Operations Rodney Evans broke ground on the New Embassy Compound in ...

' While not overlooking the role of governments and various institutions active in the social field, with freedom and courage the Church must assume her prophetic role to proclaim the Gospel and denounce injustice.

The career of a black Russian, Joachim Ritu Kabi Crima, a native of Guinea-Bissau, known as the Volgograd Obama, began to develop successfully after his recent meeting with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

For the first time in Brazil, theater groups from East Timor and Sao Tome & Principe will present plays at the FESTLIP [pt]. The festival taking place in Rio de Janeiro, also includes plays from all the other lusophone states : Cape Verde, Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal and Brazil.

First Published: 12:19 IST Last Updated: 12:25 IST Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has for the first time met an African immigrant dubbed the "Russian Obama" after he won national fame by standing last year for elected office, reports said on Friday.

The fire which broke out around 05:00 GMT "spread through the interior of several stores causing major damage," a firefighter said.

Recent events in Guinea-Bissau have spotlighted the fragility of the efforts to consolidate stability, but the West African nation's challenges, though significant, can be overcome if they are addressed immediately, a senior United Nations official said today.

Carefully picking his way along a narrow alleyway and stepping over a broken sewage pipe in Guinea-Bissau, police commandant Augusto Nhanga points up at the metal grill above him.

About 450 soldiers from 13 former French colonies in Africa on Wednesday took part in a parade on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, the French capital, together with their French brothers in arms on the occasion of the independence of France.