After the provisional results were announced, Vieira praised his rival Sanha, called him a democrat and said he hoped he would help unify the country ; he also vowed that " from today, Guinea-Bissau will change in the right direction ".

In the beginning of April 2012, when a new military Coup d ' état was under preparation, the Angolan regime decided to withdraw its military mission from Guinea-Bissau.

In December 2000 Guinea-Bissau qualified for almost $ 800 million in debt-service relief under the first phase of the enhanced HIPC initiative and is scheduled to submit its Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in March 2002.

The EU ended its mission to reform the country's security forces, EU SSR Guinea-Bissau, on 4 August 2010, a risk that may further embolden powerful generals and drug traffickers in the army and elsewhere.

The EU mission's spokesman in Guinea-Bissau said the EU had to suspend its programme when the mastermind of the mutiny, General Antonio Indjai, became army chief of staff.

* 1973 – Guinea-Bissau declares its independence from Portugal.

In 1975, Portugal granted independence to its Overseas Provinces ( Províncias Ultramarinas in Portuguese ) in Africa ( Mozambique, Angola, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and São Tomé and Príncipe ).

Cape Verde abandoned its hope for unity with Guinea-Bissau and formed the African Party for the Independence of Cape Verde ( PAICV ).

The name Gomis is associated with slavery in the history of Guinea-Bissau and its Manjack people ).

Guinea-Bissau is a member of several international organizations: the United Nations and many of its specialized and related agencies, including the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), the World Health Organization, the Food and Agriculture Organization, the Group of 77, and the International Civil Aviation Organization ; the African Development Bank ( AFDB ); the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ); the West African Economic and Monetary Union ( WAEMU ); the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ); the African Union ( AU ); and, the permanent Interstate Committee for drought control in the Sahel ( CILSS ).

Fretilin was criticised by many in Australia and Indonesia as being Marxist, its name sounding reminiscent of FRELIMO in Mozambique but it was more influenced by African nationalists like Amílcar Cabral in Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) and Cape Verde.

In 1961, the MPLA joined the PAIGC, its fraternal party in Guinea-Bissau and Cabo Verde, in direct combat against the Portuguese empire in Africa.

For the first time, the party took an official position on colonialism, stating that every people had the right of self-determination, and made clear its support of the liberation movements in the Portuguese colonies, such as MPLA in Angola, FRELIMO in Mozambique, and PAIGC in Guinea-Bissau.

After independence, the city saw its economic growth slow, in part due to the War of Independence in neighboring Guinea-Bissau.

In Portugal ( and also at some of its former colonies such as Guinea-Bissau, Macau, Cape Verde, East Timor, Angola, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe ), Children's Day ( Dia da Criança ) is celebrated on June 1.

Socialist International, of which Vieira's party is a member, stated " The International has followed with great concern the recent political difficulties in Guinea-Bissau and reiterates its firm view that there never can be any justification for the use of force to resolve political disputes and that political assassination is a completely heinous and criminal act.

PAIGC fought to overthrow the Portuguese Empire, unify Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau, and of use its vanguardism to advance socialist revolution.

The Bissagos Islands, also spelled Bijagós Islands as in its Portuguese name ( Arquipélago dos Bijagós ) are a group of about 88 islands and islets located in the Atlantic Ocean and are part of the African nation of Guinea-Bissau.

Due to difficulties of communication with mainland Guinea-Bissau that persist to this day, the population has a considerable degree of autonomy and has shielded its ancestral culture from outside influence.

Bubaque is one of the Bijagós Islands in Guinea-Bissau, and is also the name of its main town.

It rises near Labe on the Fouta Djallon plateau of Guinea, enters Guinea-Bissau on its eastern border, then meanders generally southwest, nearing the Guinea-Bissauan border, then turns northwest, passes by Xitole, then empties into the upper end of the Geba estuary.

The Farim is a river of Guinea-Bissau also known as the Cacheu along its lower length.

Air Bissau was the national airline of Guinea-Bissau, operating services from its base at Osvaldo Vieira International Airport in Bissau.

The caretaker government has managed to improve Guinea-Bissau's human rights record, as evidenced in the most recent U. S. State Department Country Reports on Human Rights Practices entry for Guinea-Bissau ( released 28 February 2005, which says " The Government generally respected the human rights of its citizens ; however, there were problems in some areas ".

In Guinea-Bissau in 1989, the ruling African Independence Party of Guinea and Cape Verde ( PAIGC ) under the direction of President João Bernardo " Nino " Vieira began to outline a political liberalization program which the People's National Assembly approved in 1991.

At a military level, a part of Guinea-Bissau was de facto independent since 1973, but the capital and the major towns were still under Portuguese control.

At a military level, a part of Guinea-Bissau was de facto independent since 1973, but the capital and the major towns were still under Portuguese control.

" It is within this context that in Africa in general and in West Africa in particular, a good neighbor policy has been pursued, which has seen Ghana under President Kufuor brokering peace in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Cote d ' lvoire and Guinea-Bissau among other African states.

In 1971, while on tour with the Ornette Coleman Quartet in Portugal ( at the time under a fascist dictatorship ), Haden decided to dedicate a performance of his " Song for Che " to the anticolonialist revolutionaries in the Portuguese colonies of Mozambique, Angola, and Guinea-Bissau.

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The Trans – West African Coastal Highway crosses Guinea, connecting it to Bissau ( Guinea-Bissau ), and when construction in Sierra Leone and Liberia is complete, to a total of 13 other nations of the Economic Community of West African States ( ECOWAS ).

* 1963 – Guinea-Bissau War of Independence officially begins when PAIGC guerrilla fighters attacked the Portuguese army stationed in Tite.

In 1970, conflict between Portuguese forces and the PAIGC in neighbouring Portuguese Guinea ( now Guinea-Bissau ) spilled into the Republic of Guinea when a group of 350 Portuguese troops and Guinean dissidents landed near Conakry, attacked the city, and freed 26 Portuguese prisoners of war held by the PAIGC before retreating, failing to overthrow the government or kill the PAIGC leadership.

The kora is believed to have come from what is now Guinea-Bissau, and is known to have existed by 1796, when Mungo Park, a Scottish explorer, reported seeing one.

The flag of Guinea-Bissau was adopted in 1973 when independence from Portugal was proclaimed.

Boe served as the Guinea-Bissau de facto capital until 1974, when Portugal offered independence to Portuguese Guinea after the Carnation Revolution in Lisbon, and Bissau was declared the national capital of the newly-independent country.

It was officially reopened in July 1999 when a TAP Portugal plane carrying Prime Minister Francisco Fadul, along with numerous other dignitaries from both Portugal and Guinea-Bissau, landed at Osvaldo Vieira.

The airline was liquidated in 1998, when the Guinea-Bissau government contracted all services to TACV of Cape Verde.

It is found in a number of African countries, including Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d ’ Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Togo, Liberia, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

In late January, following the seizure in Guinea-Bissau of a cache of weapons, a number of officers of the armed forces were arrested on charges of supplying arms to the Casamance separatists.

This article is about the demographic features of the population of Guinea-Bissau, including population density, ethnicity, education level, health of the populace, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population.

They are found in coastal marine and estuarine habitats, and in freshwater river systems along the west coast of Africa from the Senegal River south to the Kwanza River in Angola, including areas in Gambia, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Côte d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Gabon, Republic of the Congo, and Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Many buildings in the city were ruined during the Guinea-Bissau Civil War ( 1998 – 1999 ), including the Guinea-Bissau Presidential Palace and the Bissau French Cultural Centre ( now rebuilt ), and the city centre is still underdeveloped.

It was pointed out that the leaders ruling some of Senegal's neighbors ( including Guinea, Gambia and Guinea-Bissau ) had all previously used the army to maintain their grasp on power.

The Dyula ( Dioula or Juula ) are a Mande ethnic group inhabiting several West African countries, including the Mali, Cote d ' Ivoire, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Senegal and Guinea-Bissau.