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	Background Notes Archive - Africa
		The administrative capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal.
		A dispute with Great Britain over the island of Bolama was settled in Portugal's favor with the involvement of U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant.
		In 1630, a "captaincy-general" of Portuguese Guinea was established to administer the territory.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/guineabissau9404.html

	Guinea-Bissau - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch
		Bissau (Note: Former President Kumba Yala decided to change the capital city to Buba, but the plan is unlikely to go forward.)
		Guinea Bissau: A Spy Guide (World Foreign Policy and Government Library)
		The small country, a former Portuguese colony, is bounded on the north by Senegal, to the south and east by Guinea, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /guinea-bissau.htm

	Guinea-Bissau. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 1991 the national assembly officially revoked the PAIGC’s status as the sole legal party, and in 1994 Vieira was chosen as president in the country& first free elections.
		After some years of sporadic violence, the PAIGC launched a war of independence in Portuguese Guinea in the early 1960s; in 1973 it declared the province, renamed Guinea-Bissau, independent of Portugal.
		It borders on the Atlantic Ocean in the west, on Senegal in the north, and on Guinea in the east and south.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gu/GuineaBi.html

	MSN Encarta - Guinea-Bissau
		Guinea-Bissau, republic in northwestern Africa, bounded on the north by Senegal, on the east and south by Guinea, and on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
		The average annual rainfall at Bissau is 1,950 mm (77 in).
		The capital and principal port, Bissau, has a population (2001 estimate) of 292,000.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761569703

	Economic Community of West African States
		The Francophone-countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d'Ivoire, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo, with Guinea Bissau (Lusophone), comprise UEMOA.
		Senegal's President, Abdoulaye Wade, is the current ECOWAS Chairman.
		The AfDB has also issued a $2.13 million grant to finance the study on electricity production and transmission to the member states of the Organization for the Development of the River Gambia (OMVG), a regional organization whose members are the Gambia, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Senegal.
	www.eia.doe.gov /emeu/cabs/ghana.html

	Guinea, Africa Travel Guide
		The Republic of Guinea, on the west coast of Africa is bordered to the north by Senegal and Mali and on the east by Mali and the Ivory Coast, on the south by Liberia and Sierra Leone, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean and on the northwest by Guinea-Bissau.
		Guinea owes its frontiers mainly to the accidents of the late 19th century partition of Africa and has no geographic unity.
		The Niger River and its important tributary, the Milo have their source in the Guinea Highlands; the Gambia and Senegal rivers in the Futa Jallon.
	www.africaguide.com /country/guinea

	Guinea Bissau
		Guinea Bissau was first occupied by Portuguese navigators in 1446, and for the following five centuries was exploited by Portugal as a colonial power.
		Guinea Bissau is the world second largest Cashew exporter.
		Troops from Senegal and Guinea were called in to help forces loyal to President Vieira.
	us-africa.tripod.com /guineabis.html

	e6.htm
		Guinea Bissau was the last of the three countries visited by the author and also, when compared to Mozambique and Cape Verde, the one most behind where electronic communication and telecommunication infrastructure is concerned.
		Guinea Bissau is currently in the process of converting to the CFA and joining the Banque Centrale des Etat de Afrique del Ouest.
		Guinea Bissau is both former Portuguese ex-colony with strong ties to Cape Verde as well as a small country in a large francophone zone.
	members.tripod.com /%7Egambuzino/e6.htm

	Guinea Bissau Travel Directory
		Guinea-Bissau is situated on the west coast of Africa and is bordered to the north by Senegal, the east and southeast by Guinea and west southwest by the Atlantic Ocean.
		Visa are valid for a month but can be extended relatively easily at the central police station in Bissau.
		Visa: Visa are required by all except national of Benin, Burkina Fasso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Cuba, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Togo.
	www.tuttinsieme.it /tutti/tut/af/guineabissau/gubdir.htm

	Guinea Bissau Travel Guide @ TravelNotes.org
		The capital, Bissau, is located on one such estuary -- near the mouth of the Gêba River -- in the middle of Guinea Bissau's Atlantic coastline.
		Within 60 years Guinea Bissau became independent, helped in part by the overthrow of the dictatorship in Portugal during the early 1970's.
		Countries neighbouring Guinea Bissau are: Senegal and Guinea.
	www.travelnotes.org /Africa/guinea_bissau.htm

	Bissau News
		Guinea Bissau is about to run out of intravenous fluids and equipment essential to the low-cost life-saving treatment for cholera, which has claimed 112 lives...
		BISSAU (Reuters) - The government of Guinea Bissau accused an opposition member of parliament on Tuesday of funding an attack on the presidential palace in the...
		Bissau - At least 4 400 more people were diagnosed with cholera in just two weeks in the West African state of Guinea Bissau, and 35 of them have died, the...
	www.news.daylightonline.com /2005-03/Bissau.html

	Guinea-Bissau A hospital for Africa
		In June 1998, as a result of inner conflicts in the government, an armed struggle began between the President, Nino Vieira, supported by troops from Senegal and Guinea Conakry, and the chief of General Staff Ansumane Manè, supported by 80% of the national army and a good part of the population...
		These patients were transferred in the hospital of Cumura (30 km from Bissau) immediately after...
		The hospital was not spared by the conflict: some patients and members of the staff of the hospital lost their lives during the evacuation of the more seriously ill patients.
	www.santegidio.org /en/amicimondo/bissau

	Bissau, Guinea-Bissau - Current News & Information
		On the postponed Guinea Bissau trip in June, the witness was told that the mayor showed the Commission evidence that he had refunded his per diems, and asked...
		Guinea Bissau's Foreign Minister Joao Jose Silva described India as an emerging world power and said African countries, which in the past maintained their...
		The cause of the present shameful standoff between the army and civilian rulers in Guinea Bissau is the adulteration of the army by the most immediate...
	www.4newz.net /world/am/Bissau.html

	Guinea-Bissau, Landmine Monitor Report 2003
		As has been previously reported in Landmine Monitor, the landmine and unexploded ordnance (UXO) problem in Guinea-Bissau was primarily the result of the military conflict of the late 1990s; a significant number of mines are also attributed to foreign troops involved in the conflict.
		Guinea-Bissau is divided into ten medical regions but there is only one national hospital, the Simão Mendes Hospital in Bissau, and four regional hospitals, in Canchungo, Bafatá, Gabu and Catio.
		The goal of the National Mine Action Plan is to eliminate the impact of landmines and UXO in Bissau by the end of 2004 and in the southern and eastern regions of the country by the beginning of 2005.
	www.icbl.org /lm/2003/guinea_bissau.html

	Africa 2001
		Journalists in Guinea Bissau claimed the closures were in reprisal for the newspapers' critical coverage of the government.
		The president sacked four Supreme Court judges for alleged corruption, vowed to replace the majority of the country's civil servants with members of his own party, and threatened to shoot any politician who tried to use the army against him.
		At the end of the summer, the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional the president's decision to expel members of the Ahmadiyya Islamic sect, whom he had accused of causing instability.
	www.cpj.org /attacks01/africa01/guinea-bis.html

	Guinea-Bissau - Atlapedia Online
		The war for independence began in 1962 and by 1973 the National People's Assembly declared the province to be an independent nation called Guinea-Bissau with Luiz Cabral as President.
		It is bound by Guinea to the south and east, Senegal to the north and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest.
		Average annual precipitation in Bissau is 1,950 mm (77 inches) while average temperature ranges are from 24 degrees Celsius (75 degrees Fahrenheit) to 27 degrees Celsius (81 degrees Fahrenheit) all year.
	www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/guin_bis.htm

	The History Guy:Guinea Bissau Civil War
		--Elections were held and the new civilian government of President Kumba Yalla (the first democratically elected leader in Bissau history) took power in February 2000.
		On Thursday, May 6, 1999, Mane's forces struck out against the government troops, capturing Bissau and forcing Vieira to flee to a foreign embassy for safety.
		Several thousand dead, with large areas of the capital city of Bissau in ruins.
	www.historyguy.com /Guinea_Bissau_Civil_War.html

	Guinea-Bissau
		The United Nations offices in Bissau currently have restrictions for their staff and contractors on travel to the northwest regions of the country, which border on Senegal's Casamance region, and they recommend that travelers crossing the Senegalese frontier utilize crossing points east of Cambaju.
		The capital is Bissau and the primary language is Portuguese.
		There are frequent power outages in the capital, Bissau, and the lack of lighting at night makes careful driving essential.
	travel.state.gov /travel/guinea-bissau.html

	CNN.com - Senegal extends Guinea-Bissau border blockade - September 3, 2000
		BISSAU, Guinea (Reuters) -- Senegal has extended a fresh blockade of its border with Guinea-Bissau, halting traffic at the main crossing between the West African neighbors, travellers said on Sunday.
		"Vehicles from Senegal could not enter Guinea-Bissau," the driver added, after returning to the capital Bissau with his passengers.
		State radio reported that dozens of trucks with goods for Bissau were blocked in Senegal just north of Salikegne at the eastern end of the border.
	www.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/09/03/bissau.senegal.reut/index.html

	Guinea Bissau: Mapas, Datos del Pais, Etnologia, Historia, Noticias, Idiomas, Musica, ...
		Durante los 6 siglos siguientes, mantuvo bajo su control gran parte del territorio de Guinea Bissau, conquistando y sometiendo a vasallaje o esclavizando a grupos étnicos minoritarios de la región.
		Guinea Bissau: Mapas, Datos del Pais, Etnologia, Historia, Noticias, Idiomas, Musica,...
		Durante el siglo XVIII, inmigrantes, mestizos y caboberdianos de ascendencia portuguesa comenzaron a establecerse en Guinea Bissau, explotando grandes extensiones de tierras costeras con cultivos de cacahuete, café, caña de azúcar y algodón.
	ikuska.com /Africa/Paises/guinea_bissau.htm

	Guinea-Bissau
		In his 19 years of rule, Vieira was criticized for crony capitalism and corruption and for failing to alleviate the poverty of Guinea-Bissau, one of the world's poorest countries.
		A neighbor of Senegal and Guinea in West Africa, on the Atlantic coast, Guinea-Bissau is about half the size of South Carolina.
		Guinea-Bissau: History- History The area that became Portuguese Guinea was first visited by the Portuguese in...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107604.html

	An MBendi Profile: Guinea-Bissau - Overview
		Guinea-Bissau is a small independent republic which lies on the bulge of Africa to the north of Guinea and forms part of the West African Region.
		The principal airline flying to Guinea-Bissau is Air Portugal.
		Electricity is provided by the parastatal utility Electricidade et Aguas de Guinee Bissau.
	mbendi.co.za /cygbcy.htm

	CNN.com - Army patrols Guinea-Bissau capital after clashes with rebel troops - November 23, 2000
		No casualties were reported, but the Portuguese news agency Lusa said dozens of civilians were fleeing Bissau, the former Portuguese colony's coastal capital.
		Induta said the army had arrested the commander of the region, Augusto Mario Co, who was in Bissau, though he provided no details.
		The Portuguese embassy had received reports that army units also were gathering near an air base on the outskirts of the city where Brig.
	cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/11/23/guinea.bissau.ap/index.html

	License Plates of Guinea-Bissau
		Portugese Guinea became independent from Portugal as Guinea-Bissau in 1974.
	www.worldlicenseplates.com /world/AF_GBIS.html

	ABC News: Former Dictator Wins Guinea-Bissau Vote
		BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau Aug 10, 2005 &; A former Guinea-Bissau dictator was confirmed the official winner Wednesday of this African nation's presidential runoff, according to final election results.
		Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira had appeared sure of victory since last month, when the West African country's national electoral commission said provisional results had given him the edge over rival Malam Bacai Sanha.
	abcnews.go.com /International/wireStory?id=1027274

	WTO Guinea Bissau - Member information
		Guinea Bissau has been a member of WTO since 31 May 1995.
		Guinea Bissau's Uruguay Round goods schedules (zip format, 43 KB)
		This page gathers key information on Guinea Bissau's participation in the WTO.
	www.wto.org /english/thewto_e/countries_e/guinea_bissau_e.htm

	Africanet - GUINEA-BISSAU
		The Portuguese armed forces had been confined to Bissau, the capital, and a number of smaller towns and military posts.
		Efforts were made to revive the war-torn agricultural sector by peasants in the liberated areas; political and material support was given to the peasants.
		By the early 1970's approximately three quarters of the country had been liberated.
	www.africanet.com /africanet/country/guinea-b/history.htm

	Guinea-Bissau president to be put on trial
		The Prime Minister, Francisco Fadul, told French radio that elections scheduled under the peace agreement for March had been delayed, to allow time to conduct a new census of voters and for refugees to return to Guinea-Bissau.
		Government figures estimate that 8,500 citizens of Guinea-Bissau were still out of the country, including 3,500 in Portugal and others in Cape Verde, Gambia, Guinea and Senegal.
		This includes 5,415 Senegalese refugees dispersed in the northern frontier areas and approximately 750 grouped at the Jolmette refugee camp, some 200 kilometres east of the capital, Bissau.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/apr1999/guin-a27.shtml

	Boe (Guinea-Bissau)
		Boe (full name Madina do Boe) is a settlement in the southeastern region of Guinea-Bissau.
		Notice I only gave it 4 stars, but to me that is very good (5 stars are reserved for recordings of the utmost quality).
	www.freeglossary.com /Boe_%28Guinea-Bissau%29

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