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  Guinea-Bissau (11/06)
Other important groups are the Balanta and Papel, living in the southern coastal regions, and the Manjaco and Mancanha, occupying the central and northern coastal areas.
Cacheu became one of the major slave centers, and a small fort still stands in the town.
The PAIGC National Assembly met at Boe in the southeastern region and declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24, 1973.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/5454.htm   (3054 words)

  
 Cacheu and Orango   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The importance of the Cacheu and Orango regions (Guinea-Bissau) for nature conservation has been established during the 1980´s by the Guinean authorities and IUCN - The World Conservation Union.
Orango National Park is located in the Bijagos archipelago, which is almost entirely a biosphere reserve since 1996, and Cacheu River Natural Park is situated along the Cacheu River close to the northern border with Senegal.
Cacheu´s mangroves are crucial for the sustainability of shrimp catches at national level, and Orango holds internationally important populations of birds, sea mammals and sea turtles.
www.iict.pt /actividades/222/iict222/iict222_05/iict222_05_01.htm   (240 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau Regions
Projected population by region up to 2004 is now available on the website of the INEC
região: regions) and one sector autónomo (autonomous sector).
The remainder of Fulacunda was renamed Buba, and its capital moved from Fulacunda to Buba.
www.statoids.com /ugw.html   (426 words)

  
 Chapter 3 - Guinea Bissau
Each region is divided into three to six sectors, with 34 sectors in all.
About 75% of the animals vaccinated were in Bafata and Gabu Regions in the east, and 9% were in Cacheu Region on the northern part of the coast.
This shorthorn type is being absorbed: its influence is only recognized by a greater heterogeneity in the herds of these areas, with a higher proportion of fl and fl spotted animals and horns which are atypical for the N'Dama (shaped in a short crescent, for example).
www.ilri.cgiar.org /InfoServ/Webpub/Fulldocs/X5537e/x5537e04.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Róbinson Rojas.- Andrew Manley: GUINEA BISSAU/SENEGAL: WAR, CIVIL WAR AND THE CASAMANCE QUESTION (November 1998).- ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
As with many other regional conflicts in the past two decades, Casamance has as its causes the marginalization of a particular region under a highly centralized post-colonial administration, and the impact on African national economies of economic slump and the recourse to harsh Bretton Woods-backed structural adjustment programmes.
The extent of the region's decline, despite its status as the most fertile and productive agricultural zone in the country, can be measured by the changing patterns of migration to Dakar between 1935 and 1989.
It took a regional, rather then a purely domestic, conflict to undermine his de facto legitimacy (despite the dubious nature of his victory in the 1994 presidential elections).
www.rrojasdatabank.org /guinea.htm   (8343 words)

  
 Cacheu Region Map: Babacha — Utia | Guinea-Bissau Google Satellite Maps (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
You are in Cacheu (Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau), administrative region of level 2.
If you would like to recommend this Cacheu map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
www.maplandia.com.cob-web.org:8888 /guinea-bissau/cacheu/cacheu   (632 words)

  
 Cacheu
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www.tourismdictionary.com /Cacheu.htm   (268 words)

  
 Identity and Cultural Exchange 600-1600: José Nafafe, 'Mercantile Settlers in Guinea'
Gomes, a household officer, administrator and seaman, took part in the quest of rediscovery a couple of years earlier than Cadamosto.(13) Gomes said that Henry used to entertain nobles whom he later employed in the rediscovery of Guinea.
He stated: "Henry always took care to nourish nobles and the famous and to send them at his own expense to inquire into foreign regions etc."(14) Henry's motivation for the rediscovery was commercial.
It was a region that was pregnant with religious freedom and politically protective of those who requested help.
www.english.bham.ac.uk /medievalstudies/ice/Nafafe.htm   (2457 words)

  
 ADPP Guinea Bissau donates clothes to war displaced families in Sao Domingo Sector, in Guinea-Bissau.
ADPP in Guinea-Bissau is the first organization to respond to the government appeal for the support of families in the war region.
The relief aid by ADPP in Guinea Bissau is reaching displaced families in the Sector of Sao Domingo, Bula, Canchungo and Cacheu.
All these sectors belong to the Cacheu Region, in the North of Guinea-Bissau.
www.humanapeopletopeople.org /Articel.asp?NewsID=157   (323 words)

  
 Stranded villagers could be out of food   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Sister Ruth started out in the capital Bissau with a truckload of supplies, making the 80-kilometre trek to Cacheu where the rice, fuel and other goods were transferred to the boat.
An estimated 2,000 displaced people are in the city of Cacheu, some 1,500 in Ingore, according to aid workers in the region.
Throughout the Senegal-Guinea Bissau border region, for years fighting and rampant landmines have blocked people from tending to their fields — for most the sole source of income.
www.irinnews.org /print.asp?ReportID=52423   (797 words)

  
 REFUGEES, DISPLACED PERSONS, EXILES
A mission conducted to the border regions in Senegal last week counted hundreds of people of other nationalities arriving in the Casamance area, itself the scene of regular military action by a separatist group, while Guinea (Conakry) already hosts over 500,000 refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia.
The region's Kurdish groups are unlikely to unite behind him and may well remain as bitterly divided as ever.
Meanwhile the governments of the region remain solidly united in their determination to prevent the emergence of an independent Kurdish state.
www.msu.edu /course/pls/461/stein/refugees.htm   (7328 words)

  
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home.tiscali.de /onlineinfo/region-of-france.html   (232 words)

  
 European Union | Election Observation Mission Guinea-Bissau 2005
From 1961 to 1970, he was in the liberation troops in the South region becoming commander of the South Front from 1964.
He was born on 5 May 1947 in the Quinara region (Dar Salam).
Aregado Manteque presents him as son of “humble peasants” born in Cacheu Region.
www.eueomgbissau.org /Political_Background.htm   (785 words)

  
 IRIN-West Africa Update 334 for 1998.11.9
Approved passage is by air to Banjul, in The Gambia, and onward to Cacheu by small boat.
It has given the ICRC food for 5,000 internally displaced in Bafata region and 7,600 in Cacheu region.
Jackson said the meeting would focus on the "shared commitment to stop the fighting and to stop the flow of arms to the region".
www.africa.upenn.edu /Newsletters/irinw334.html   (1447 words)

  
 Cacheu Region Map: Bigene — Sao Domingos | Guinea-Bissau Google Satellite Maps
Cacheu Region Map: Bigene — Sao Domingos
Browse the list of administrative regions below and follow the navigation through secondary administrative regions to find populated place you are interested in.
You are in Cacheu (Guinea-Bissau), administrative region of level 1.
www.maplandia.com /guinea-bissau/cacheu   (627 words)

  
 Joseph Kenny OP: THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IN TROPICAL AFRICA, Chapter 4   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
 Two of the fourteen died soon after arrival, while seven shortly went to work in the region of Cacheu.  In 1684 the Capuchins submitted two reports to Propaganda Fide strenuously and categorically condemning the slave trade and asking for sanctions against the slave traders both from the Church and the king of Portugal.
The Franciscans were pioneers of Christianity in the diocese of Santiago, but abandoned the area towards the end of the 16th century.  In 1657 a group of seven Portuguese Franciscans came to revive their mission.  Four more joined them later and in 1660 Frs.
The Franciscans together with the Capuchins assured a continuous effort of evangelization on the Guinea coast from Cacheu to Sierra Leone throughout the second part of the 17th century.  Although there were no large or important states, many minor kings or chiefs together with masses of the people embraced Christianity at this time.
www.diafrica.org /nigeriaop/kenny/ccta/CCTA4.htm   (1206 words)

  
 UNICEF - At a glance: Guinea-Bissau - Crisis response meets immediate needs of Guinea-Bissau families displaced by ...
She fled her village in São Domingos with the children and her neighbour Augusta, who has three of her own children under the age of five.
She and her three young children were forced to flee their village due to conflict between the army and Senegalese rebels.
UNICEF Bissau is concerned for children and women in the region, as they are typically the most vulnerable to harm in conflict situations.
www.unicef.org /rsstracker/news/infobycountry/guineabissau_31907.rhtml   (646 words)

  
 afrol News - Guinea-Bissau's Kumba Yala: from crisis to crisis
Kumba Yala, the man currently doing more than anyone else to upset political stability in Guinea-Bissau, was born 15 March 1953 in Bula, in the Cacheu region, to a Balanta farming family.
According to PAIGC sources, the interest demonstrated by the two countries in Guinea-Bissau can be explained in large part by the fact that US-based company Premier Oil is currently prospecting for petroleum in the region of Bolama and the Bijagós islands.
In his attempt to re-take the office of President of Guinea-Bissau, Kumba Yala has used various schemes, including an appeal to the solidarity of Balanta military personnel and a rapprochement with a series of politicians with whom he had previously been at odds, such as Nino Vieira, Caetano N'Tchama, Artur Sanhá and Francisco Fadul.
www.afrol.com /articles/16350   (914 words)

  
 Cacheu (Guinea-Bissau) map - nona.net
Cacheu is a populated place in Cacheu, which is a region of Guinea-Bissau.
An overview map of the region around Cacheu is displayed below.
regional and 3d topo map of Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau ::
nona.net /features/map/placedetail.1079/Cacheu   (100 words)

  
 Developing Micro-Farming in Cleared Lands of the Northern Region 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Targeted Beneficiaries: 5,000 rural community members and their families from the northern region of Cacheu
Identify social and economic mechanisms to help existing livelihood strategies by improving, producing, or creating new opportunities to develop farming microeconomic activities and initiatives in areas cleared of mines and UXO.
The intention is to promote sustainable economics to enable rural communities to take responsibility for their lives and contribute to regional development.
www.mineaction.org /project.asp?pr=150   (300 words)

  
 The introduction of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis vaccine and child mortality in rural Guinea-Bissau: an observational ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
regions with an interval of 6 months unless there were logistic
Manjaco in Cacheu, and Mandinga and Fula in Gabu.
would be similar for all villages in a given region.
ije.oxfordjournals.org /cgi/content/full/33/2/374   (4676 words)

  
 senegal_laying_landmines / News / Home - International Campaign to Ban Landmines
The MFDC has been waging an independence struggle for the Casamance region of southern Senegal since 1982.
In mid-March, a faction of the MFDC led by Salif Sadio fled into northern Guinea-Bissau after a military conflict with another MFDC faction, and the military forces of Guinea-Bissau launched an attack on the rebel-occupied areas.
During the past several weeks, northern border districts of Guinea-Bissau have suffered from the use of antipersonnel and antivehicle mines by the Salif Sadio MFDC faction.
www.icbl.org /news/senegal_laying_landmines   (529 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau Demographics and Geography - Columbia Gazetteer of the World Online
Guinea-Bissau is divided into nine provinces (regions): Bafatá;, Biombo, Bissau, Bolama, Cacheu, Gabú;, Oio, Quinara, and Tombali.
The country is largely a low-lying deltaic region and has many rivers, some with wide, swampy estuaries.
Its irregularly shaped coastline is 100 mi/161 km long.
www.columbiagazetteer.org /public/Guinea-Bissau.html   (493 words)

  
 Index Gl-Go
June 11, 2005, Almancil, Algarve region), prime minister of Portugal (1974-75).
The constraints of the new United Front governing coalition forced Gowda to surround himself with a number of cabinet ministers who had more experience in India's hinterlands than in the country's power centres of New Delhi and Bombay.
But the new government was one of the most representative in India's history, with ministerial posts going to politicians from a diversity of religions, castes, and regions which historically have been shut out of the country's national leadership.
rulers.org /indexg3.html   (11815 words)

  
 Planting Rice and Harvesting Slaves: Transformations Along the Guinea-Bissau Coast, 1400-1900   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
A commonly held view of decentralized, "stateless" societies in Africa as being powerless victims of far more organized neighbors is challenged in this historical examination of the Banata peoples in the Guinea-Bissau coastal region of West Africa.
Hawthorne (Ohio Univ.), who learned the local language and collected much of his material using the vernacular, demonstrates how the Banata, lacking anything like a state organization, fended off far more powerful neighbors.
Appendix 5 Slave Exports from the Guinea-Bissau Region
www.thattechnicalbookstore.com /b0325070504.htm   (298 words)

  
 Sunrise and Sunset Times for Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau in Africa
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Moon Rise Times and Lunar data for Cacheu, Guinea-Bissau
www.thesunrisetimes.com /Africa/Cacheu,_Guinea-Bissau.aspx   (63 words)

  
 Cacheu Region Map: Bigene — Sao Domingos | Guinea-Bissau Google Satellite Maps (via CobWeb/3.1 ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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 Guinea Bissau Map - Africa
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roads of the country, Mapof the Region, main cities, river ans mountains.
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 News: West Africa, Guinea-Bissau-Senegal: Stranded villagers could be out of food
The UN refugee agency UNHCR has provided tents and drinking water to displaced families, an official withthe agency's regional office in Dakar said.
With the exception of public UN sources, reproduction or redistribution of the above text, in whole, part or in any form, requires the prior consent of the original source.
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs - Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN)
www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LTIO-6N7RV9?OpenDocument   (813 words)

  
 Quinara Region information - Search.com (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab1.cs.wisc.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
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