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Guinea-Bissau: Embalo clings to presidency despite end of term
New ReviewThe president's term officially expired midnight Thursday. But instead of a transfer of power, Sissoco Embalo stayed on as president in what the opposition has termed as an illegal power grab
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Guinea-Bissau presidential election: Here's what you need to know
Hundreds of thousands of voters due to cast ballots on Sunday amid hopes the poll will bring political stability.
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Guinea-Bissau election: Vote count for presidential poll starts
President Jose Mario Vaz seeking re-election but stiff opposition from frontrunner Domingos Simoes Pereira.
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Guinea-Bissau: Investigations into political killings stalled
Ten years after Guinea Bissau's parliament voted for a truth and reconciliation commission, the government is yet to probe hundreds of political assassinations.
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Guinea-Bissau elections: Leader says he will respect results
President Jose Mario Vaz will be first democratically-elected president of Guinea-Bissau to have completed his mandate - but his mandate has been anything but stable.
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Guinea-Bissau's presidential candidates wrap up campaigns
Incumbent President Jose Mario Vaz is running against eleven other candidates, including two of the prime ministers he fired while in office.
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Guinea-Bissau holds legislative polls amid political deadlock
The vote comes after President Umaro Sissoco Embalo dissolved parliament last year after falling out with MPs.
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WHO says Madagascar's herbal tonic against COVID-19 not a cure
Tanzania, Guinea-Bissau excited about herbal remedy purported to cure coronavirus.
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Chimpanzees caught on camera sharing boozy fruit in Guinea-Bissau
Wild chimpanzees in Guinea-Bissau have been filmed sharing fermented fruit for the first time in the animal kingdom
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NGOs sue Spain for ignoring illegal fishing threat to African coasts
Spain is under fire—accused of ignoring illegal fishing by its own fleet in West African waters
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Coup leader greeted by crowds
1. Crowds march through the streets of Bissau in support of the new regime shouting "Kumba Yala Rua" (translates as Kumba Yala Go)
2. Crowds march through the streets of Bissau in support of the new regime
3. Soldiers hold back traffic...
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Senegal - Refugees feared drowned
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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Raul Castro meets with president of Guinea-Bissau
1. Cuban military band playing at the Grand Hall at the Palace of the Revolution
2. Medium of Cuban Interim-President Raul Castro and Guinea Bissau President Joao Bernardo Vieira, UPSOUND military band
3. Medium of honour guard...
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Condoleezza Rice hosts Brazilian foreign minister
1. US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice entering room with Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim and Antonio Isaac Monteiro, the Foreign Minister of Guinea-Bissau, all three taking a seat at the table
2. Pan across leaders signing...
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WHO official says number of cases "doubling every four weeks"
The death toll from Ebola will rise this week to more than 4,500 people among the nine-thousand infected, and the outbreak is still out of control in three West African nations, a top official with the UN health agency said on...
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Wife of captured fugitive says he should not be extradited to US
1. Wide of captured American fugitive George Wright and his wife, Maria do Rosario Valente, talking to the reporter
2. Mid Wright kissing his wife
3. Panning Wright walking and hugging his wife
4. Close Wright and his wife
5. Mid...
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WRAP West African leaders arrive to confront Gbagbo ADDS leaders meet Gbagbo
1. President of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires walking down plane steps, being greeted by Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's prime minister Gilbert Marie N'gbo Ake and other officials
2. Pires and Gbagbo's prime minister...
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WAfrica delegation tells Gbagbo he must go, Ouattara meeting
1. Motorcade arriving at incumbent Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo's palace
2. Gbagbo greeting Dr. Thomas Yayi Boni, President of Benin
3. Gbagbo greeting Ernest Bai Koroma, President of Sierra Leone
4. Gbagbo greeting Pedro Pires,...
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Gulf secures multi-billion dollar West African projects
Eight West African nations have agreed to 19 billion US dollars worth of infrastructure deals with the Gulf.
The lion's share is going toward a massive road and railway project by a company in the United Arab Emirates.
Representatives of...
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Spain grapples with surging number of teenage migrants
Standing outside a Barcelona police station, five teenagers waited patiently on a recent Friday evening to find out where they would sleep that night: a shelter for young migrants or on that bench.
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WRAP WAfrican leaders meet Gbagbo, post meeting, Liberians at UN
1. President of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires walking down plane steps, being greeted by Ivory Coast's incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo's prime minister Gilbert Marie N'gbo Ake and other officials
2. Pires and Gbagbo's prime minister...
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SYND 11 9 77 UN DESERTIFICATION CONFERENCE
The first United Nations conference on the spread of deserts ends in Nairobi on a note of strong unity. Secretary General Tolba sums up the conference that has involved delegates from around the world, USSR, Thailand, Benin; East...
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UN: FUTURE OF SECRETARY GENERAL BOUTROS GHALI STILL IN THE BALANCE
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The United Nations Security Council remained deadlocked Thursday after another day of consultations on the future of Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali.
Diplomatic sources said that, behind the scenes, some African...
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GUINEA BISSAU: GOVERNMENT TROOPS OFFENSIVE FAILS TO GAIN GROUND
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A large scale offensive by government forces in Guinea Bissau has failed to gain any ground and may have even lost territory to the rebels in the civil war.
Both sides exchanged shell fire on Wednesday, but it appears that...