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USA: UNITED NATIONS VOTE IN 5 NEW NON PERMANENT MEMBER COUNTRIES
English/Nat
Five new non-permanent members of the UN Security Council have been announced by the General Assembly.
Ten countries nominated, but the Assembly chose South Korea, Egypt, Chile, Poland and Guinea-Bissau.
The General...
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A convicted American killer who once hijacked a plane lived openly under his real name of George Wright in West Africa during the 1980s and even knew U.S. embassy officials there, a former U.S. ambassador said.
HEADLINE: Ambassador: Americans knew fugitive in Africa
CAPTION: A convicted American killer who once hijacked a plane lived openly under his real name of George Wright in West Africa during the 1980s and even knew U.S. embassy...
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Iraq - Investigations into rocket attack on UNSCOM
UN and Iraqi officials continued their investigations Sunday
(4/1) into a rocket attack on the UN inspectors UNSCOM
headquarters in Baghdad Friday (2/2).
Iraq has condemned the attack as an act of sabotage and Iraqi
and UN officials are...
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GUINEA BISSAU: GOVERNMENT TROOPS & REBELS EXCHANGE ARTILLERY FIRE
Portu/French/Nat
Government troops and rebels are reported to have exchanged heavy artillery fire in the capital of Guinea-Bissau on Friday, killing at least eight civilians.
The Portuguese news agency Lusa says the victims died in...
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Senegal - Refugees flee Guinea Bissau
Around 200 people fleeing week-long fighting in Guinea Bissau were reported to have drowned on Sunday (14/6), as renewed intense shelling between government forces and army rebels pounded the capital. French evacuees in Dakar the...
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GUINEA BISSAU: BISHOP'S EFFORTS TO PRODUCE A CEASEFIRE
Portuguese/Nat
Signs of peace are few and far between in the West African nation of Guinea Bissau despite efforts to produce a ceasefire.
The Bishop of Bissau has had numerous meetings with both government officials and rebel...
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Interiors of slain President's house; s'bite from Angola's Vice FM
1. Exterior of the president's house
2. Angola's Vice Foreign Minister Jorge Chicote arrives at house
3. Chicote and officials enter house
4. Mid of table and chairs
5. Bloodstains and machete lying on the floor next to chairs
6. Close...
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SYND 13 8 74 UN SECURITY COUNCIL VOTE ON ADMISSION OF GUINEA BISSAU
UN Security Council vote on admission of Guinea Bissau
1 flags outside UN building
2 Soviet delegate at UN Security Council
3 US delegate
4 vote taken
5 UK representitive welcomes recognition of Guinea Bissau
Film: Rev - Sound: Mute -...
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GUINEA BISSAU: CONTINUING CIVIL WAR RESULTS IN 200,000 HOMELESS
Eng/French/Nat
Guinea Bissau's continuing civil war has resulted in an estimated 2-hundred thousand people being made homeless.
With the fighting between rebel factions of the army and government forces continuing, the continual threat...
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GUINEA BISSAU: REBELS STEP UP PRESSURE AGAINST SENEGALESE TROOPS
Natural Sound
Fighting continues in Guinea Bissau where factions of the military have broken off to form their own rebel government.
The rebels are attacking forces loyal to the country's actual government.
They say they'll fight until...
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Swearing in ceremony for interim leader following assassination
1. Wide exterior of the national assembly where the interim president, Head of Parliament Raimundo Pereira, is being sworn in
2. Mid interior of interim president, Raimundo Pereira, as he takes oath of office during swearing-in ceremony...
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Hopes that Guinea-Bissau election will bring stability two years after coup
The people of Guinea-Bissau went to the polls on Sunday to vote in presidential and parliamentary elections, almost two years to the day after the coup in 2012 which halted elections between two rounds of voting.
No leader in Guinea...
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President of Guinea Bissau toppled in bloodless coup
1. Army headquarters in Bissau, capital of Guinea-Bissau
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Zamora Induta, spokesman for the new regime:
"We did this action without any shooting, without a thing like that. That's very important to us."
3. Soldiers...
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UN: NEW YORK: RACE TO FIND SUITABLE SUCCESSOR TO BOUTROS GHALI
English/Nat
The United Nations Security Council is waiting to see whether Africa will offer another candidate for secretary-general.
Officially, Boutros Boutros-Ghali remains the African nations' choice for another term.
But even...
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Portugal court refuses to send US fugitive home, intv with wife
Lisbon - 17 November, 2011
1. Various of fugitive George Wright and his wife Maria do Rosario, walking and entering building
2. Wright and lawyers arriving at news conference
3. SOUNDBITE: (Portuguese) George Wright, fugitive:
"I was...
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GUINEA BISSAU: GOVERNMENT FORCES ATTACKED BY REBELS
English/Nat
Guinea Bissau's government forces came under heavy attack from rebels on Sunday in some of the heaviest fighting since a military faction mutinied a month ago.
The government forces have been backed up by troops from...
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GUINEA BISSAU: FIGHTING BETWEEN GOVERNMENT & REBEL TROOPS SPREADS
Creole/Eng/Nat
The fighting in Guinea-Bissau between government soldiers and rebel troops continues to spread into the countryside, with the town of Mansoa seeing its second day of fighting.
The three-week conflict in the former...
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ECOWAS meeting, comment from Frederick Forsyth
1. Exterior of Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) office
2. ECOWAS sign outside office
3. Wide of meeting between ECOWAS ministers and diplomats
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mohamed Ibnu Tchambas, ECOWAS chairman:
"Impunity...
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Elections mark Portugal as political curiosity
No loud populists, no surging far-right groups, a liberal and migrant-welcoming Socialist Party tipped for a resounding win - Portugal's general election this weekend makes the country look like Europe's odd man out.