BAFATA REGION, Guinea-Bissau, 26 March, 2008 -- At a remote police station in eastern Guinea-Bissau, Amandou Jau, 12, waited patiently to be reunited with his father. Amandou had been rescued from the clutches of a child trafficker who had sought to smuggle him across the border into Senegal. Sa...
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BISSAU, Guinea-Bissau, 5 March 2008 -- Awa Gras knows firsthand how deadly malaria can be for children growing up in Guinea-Bissau. She has given birth to eight children, and malaria has killed four of them. The last to die was her four-year-old son, who returned from a soccer match feeling ill. ...
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CASSACA, Guinea-Bissau, 3 March 2008 -- Like many girls in Guinea-Bissau, Mariama Sambu, 10, has a busy life. She rises at six each morning to help with household chores, which is no easy task when you share your small home with 18 other people. The structure of her house -- bricks made of mud, a...
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Soldiers assassinated the president of Guinea-Bissau in his palace Monday hours after a bomb blast killed the army chief who had been his political rival for decades. (March 2)
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The President of Guinea-Bissau, Joao Bernado "Nino" Vieira has been shot dead by soldiers in an apparent revenge attack hours after the West African country’s army chief was killed. Video courtesy of Reuters.
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help flood survivors who lost everything: home, belongings, livestock, pets and livelihood. Four years and two days after Katrina, a deluge hits West Africa, an area larger than the Western United States including Alaska, home to a culturally diverse population with 904 languages. 15 West Africa...
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