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• Guinea Bissau: Pillay urges new transitional authorities and military to respect human rights

  
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      Guinea Bissau: Pillay urges new transitional authorities and military to respect human rights   GENEVA, Switzerland, May 25, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay on took note that on 22 May the Military Command in Guinea Bissau handed over ...
  3 days ago

• Contingent of 140 Burkinabe Policemen Leave Ouagadougou for Bissau, the Capital of Guinea Bissau

  
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  A contingent of 140 Burkinabe policemen left Ouagadougou Sunday for Bissau, the capital of Guinea Bissau, as part of the ECOWAS stand-by force, APA can confirm from security sources. According to the Burkinabe police forces head, Col. Tuandaba Coulibaly, the task of the force will be to replace the departing ...
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• West African Instability Complicated By Military Power Seizure In Guinea-Bissau

  
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  Soldiers in Guinea-Bissau – a West African country with a history of coups, misrule and political instability since it gained independence from Portugal in 1974 – seized power on 12 April. Calls by the international community for the return to civilian rule and the restoration of constitutional order have so far ...
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• United Nations Security Council Imposes Travel Ban Against Five Military Officers Who Seized Power From the Civilian Government in Guinea-Bissau

  
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  The United Nations Security Council on Friday imposed a travel ban against five military officers who seized power from the civilian government in Guinea-Bissau last month, and urged UN member states to ensure that the sanctioned individuals do not enter or transit through their territories. In the same resolution ...
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• Division And Stasis in Guinea-Bissau

  
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  On May 16 a transition pact brokered by the Economic Community Of West African States (ECOWAS) and signed by all parties except the majority PAIGC [African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde] – officially nominated Manuel Serifo Nhamadjo as Interim President of Guinea-Bissau for one year. The ...
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• SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR WEST AFRICA TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDIATION PROCESS IN MALI, GUINEA-BISSAU TO ENSURE SPEEDY RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER

  
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      SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR WEST AFRICA TO PARTICIPATE IN MEDIATION PROCESS IN MALI, GUINEA-BISSAU TO ENSURE SPEEDY RETURN TO CONSTITUTIONAL ORDER   NEW YORK, May 19, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following statement was issued on 17 May by the Spokesperson for Secretary-General Ban ...
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• Guinea-Bissau: Security Council imposes travel ban on coup leaders

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 133
  UN - 18 May 2012 – The Security Council today imposed a travel ban against five military officers who seized power from the civilian government in Guinea-Bissau last month, and urged Member States to ensure that the sanctioned individuals do not enter or transit through their territories. In the same resolution ...
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• UN Security Council imposes sanctions on Guinea-Bissau coup leaders and key military officers

  
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  The U.N. Security Council has voted unanimously to impose sanctions on the leaders of last months coup in Guinea-Bissau and key military officers preventing the return to constitutional rule. A resolution adopted by the council on Friday named four generals and one lieutenant colonel who will be subject ...
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• SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON GUINEA-BISSAU

  
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      SECURITY COUNCIL PRESS STATEMENT ON GUINEA-BISSAU   NEW YORK, May 9, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The following Security Council press statement was issued today by Council President Agshin Mehdiyev (Azerbaijan):   The members of the Security Council were briefed on 7 May 2012 by ...
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• ECOWAS TO HOLD SECOND EXTRA-ORDINARY SUMMIT ON GUINEA BISSAU, MALI

  
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      ECOWAS TO HOLD SECOND EXTRA-ORDINARY SUMMIT ON GUINEA BISSAU, MALI   ABUJA, Nigeria, May 3, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ECOWAS leaders are to hold a second extra-ordinary session in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday, 3rd May 2012 to synchronize regional responses to the unfolding political ...
  3 weeks ago

• Africa: ECOWAS to hold second extra-ordinary summit on Guinea Bissau, Mali

  
  i On Global Trends - Mike Hitchen Online - news, opinion, analysis — Authority: 133
  ECOWAS ECOWAS leaders are to hold a second extra-ordinary session in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday, 3rd May 2012 to synchronize regional responses to the unfolding political crises in two Member States – Guinea Bissau and Mali. The summit coming eight days after the one held on 26th April in Abidjan, will review ...
  3 weeks ago

• ECOWAS SANCTIONS GUINEA BISSAU AFTER FAILED TALKS

  
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    ECOWAS SANCTIONS GUINEA BISSAU AFTER FAILED TALKS   ABUJA, Nigeria, May 1, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — ECOWAS has imposed diplomatic, economic and financial sanctions on Guinea Bissau after talks in Banjul on 29th April 2012 between Foreign Ministers of the regional Contact Group and Guinea ...
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• Guinea-Bissau: International Reactions to the Military Coup

  
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  Following the military coup in Guinea-Bissau, on April 12, Angolan Foreign Policy Professor Belarmino Van-Dúnem wrote an analysis [pt] on the roles of the Armed Forces and the international community. ECOWAS talks to restore civilian rule during the weekend resulted on the decision to impose sanctions on the ...
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• If ECOWAS Sends 1000 Ivorian Troops to Mali, Screening for Duekoue?

  
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  By Matthew Russell Lee UNITED NATIONS, April 28 — As ECOWAS moves to send 3000 soldiers to Mali, it’s reported that up to 1000 of them will be from Cote d’Ivoire, whose Alassane Ouattara is heading up ECOWAS.   flag of the Economic Community of West African States (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Less than a year ...
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• ECOWAS losing patience over perennial crisis in Guinea Bissau, warns President Jammeh

  
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      ECOWAS losing patience over perennial crisis in Guinea Bissau, warns President Jammeh   ABUJA, Nigeria, April 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — The Gambian President, Alhaji Yahya Jammeh, has warned that the region was “losing its patience” over the perennial political crisis in ...
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• ECOWAS CONTACT GROUP MINISTERS ON GUINEA BISSAU MEETS IN BANJUL

  
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      ECOWAS CONTACT GROUP MINISTERS ON GUINEA BISSAU MEETS IN BANJUL   BANJUL, Gambia, April 30, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ — Foreign Ministers of the seven-nation ECOWAS Contact Group on Guinea Bissau are meeting with the country’s political stakeholders on Sunday, 29th April 2012 in ...
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• Freed Guinea Bissau Leaders Arrive in Ivorian Capital

  
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  The former interim president of Guinea-Bissau, Raimundo Pereira, and the former Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior, whom the military had kept incommunicado since taking over power on April 12, arrived Friday on night in the Ivorian economic capital, Abidjan. The Bissau officials were received upon arrival at the ...
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• Members of the Military in Guinea Bissau have Ransacked the Land Transport Division

  
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  Members of the military in Guinea Bissau have ransacked the land transport division in Bissau taking away CFA 8 million, important documents and seals, APA can confirm. The incident happened overnight Thursday when military men bust into the building with complicity from a navy carpenter who helped them with the ...
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• World Briefing | Africa: Guinea-Bissau: Carlos Gomes Jr. and Raimundo Pereira Are Freed

  
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  http://www.nytimes.com/ World Briefing | Africa: Guinea-Bissau: Carlos Gomes Jr. and Raimundo Pereira Are Freed Soldiers on Friday released Carlos Gomes Jr., the former prime minister, and interim President Raimundo Pereira, who were arrested in an April 12 coup. published date:Sat, 28 Apr 2012 ...
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• World Briefing | Africa: Guinea-Bissau: Carlos Gomes Jr. and Raimundo Pereira Are Freed

  
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  Soldiers on Friday released Carlos Gomes Jr., the former prime minister, and interim President Raimundo Pereira, who were arrested in an April 12 coup.
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