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Guinea Bissau

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• African Development Bank Group on Guinea Bissau (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• AFRISTAT:  Guinée Bissau -- Données statistiques (Observatoire économique et statistique d'Afrique Subsaharienne, Bamako, Mali)
  • Sur ce site, on peut trouver les données statistiques sur le pays: démographie, education, activités économiques, échanges extérieurs, prix, transports, tourisme et environnement, etc. 'AFRISTAT est une organisation internationale créée par un traité signé le 21 septembre 1993 à Abidjan par les pays de la Zone Franc.'
  • See also: Instituto Nacional de Estatística below
  • AFRISTAT -- Page d'accueil
  
  
• All Africa.Com: Recent News Summaries on Guinea Bissau (AllAfrica Global Media, Washington, DC)
  News summaries are in English and French, based mostly on reports from West African news agencies and the Pan African News Agency (PANA).
  
  
• Amnesty International on Guinea-Bissau--Brief Profile (Washington, DC and New York)
  
  
• Bissau Digital -- Ultimas notícias e opiniöes (Portuguese News Network, Lisboa)
  Vêde também: Directório e Links Úteis
  
  
• British Broadcasting Corporation News on Guinea-Bissau (BBC, London, UK)
  • "Guinea-Bissau speaker is sworn in (March 3, 2009) ; "Obituary: President Vieira of Guinea Bissau" (March 2, 2009)
  • "Guinea-Bissau vote goes smoothly" (November 16, 2008) Parliamentary elections 2008
  • BBC Profile on Guinea-Bissau (August 2008)
  
  
• Amilcar Cabral Symposium, 9-12 September 2004, Praia, Cape Verde (via CODESRIA-Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, Dakar, Senegal)
  This web page offers a biography, a bibliography, and related information.
  
  
• Constitution of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (1984, amended 1996) Unofficial text in WORD format.
  (via International Committee of the Red Cross, Geneva, Switzerland)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Guinea Bissau (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Didinho.Org -- Projecto Contributo Guiné Bissau ("Didinho" Fernando Cassimiro, via Portugal)
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Guinea-Bissau (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization on Guinea-Bissau (Rome, Italy)
  • FAO Aquastat Programme: Guinée-Bissau, 2005
    Un rapport bref. "AQUASTAT est un systéme d'information sur l'eau et le développement agricole et rural. Il contient des analyses régionales ainsi que des monographies sur les ressources en eau et leur utilisation, plus particulièrement l'irrigation et le drainage. L'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture a entamé en 1993 ce programme."
    
    
  • FAO Document Repository on "Guinea-Bissau"
  
  
• Guinea-Bissau "Civil War" News & Discussions, 1998-2000
  • Guiné-Bissau, o Conflito e Depois do Conflito, 1998-2000: Noticias e Opiniões (Comunidade de Povos Lusufonos unidos na busca da Paz para o Povo Guineense, via GeoCities)
    
  • "Returning to Guinea-Bissau During a Time of War" (1999) (Corona Frietag, University of Nevada, Reno)
  
  
• Guinea Bissau Web Page (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia)
  
  
• Instituto Nacional de Estatística da Républica da Guiné-Bissau: Publicações e Dados (2002-2006) Ministério da Economia. (Bissau)
  
  
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre: Internally displaced persons in Guinea Bissau (2002-2006) Norwegian Refugee Council (Geneva, Switzerland)
  For Guinea-Bissau, the IDMC offers a profile or overview of the humanitarian situation in 2002 and 2006...especially in the northern part of the country bordering Senegal.
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Guinea Bissau Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring  Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• Investir en Zone Franc: Guinée Bissau (IZF.Net, France)
  Un guide pratique des affaires, y compris les principaux indicateurs économiques, plusieurs liens aux institutions divers, et les  cartes du pays et de Bissau.
  
  
• Liga Guineense dos Direitos Humanos (2007-2008) (Bissau)
  "Foi fundada em Bissau a 12 de Agosto de 1991, onde tem a sua sede."
  
  
• Kandeer-Manjaku.Com: le site de référence de la langue et de la culture Manjaku dans la diversité de leurs aspects. (René Gomis, France?)
  Un site qui est consacré à la culture Manjaku du Sénégal et de la Guinée Bissau. Voir surtout: La langue Manjaku et son peuple.
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Guinea-Bissau (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A very basic economic profile.
  
  
• National Information and Communications Infrastructure for Sustainable Development in Africa:  Guinea-Bissau, 1999 (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia)
  General background, Internet connectivity data, and project information.
  
  
• Notícias Lusofonas -- Guiné Bissau: actualização diária (Lisbon, Portugal)
  
  
• Partido dos Trabalhadores da Guiné-Bissau (Bissau)
  
  
• United Nations Development Programme: Political Reform for MDGs--National Human Development Report for Guinea-Bissau 2006 in English --or-- French PDF format (New York)
  
  
• United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on Guinea Bissau (Geneva, Switzerland)
  See Research/Evaluation...Country and Legal Information Search.
  
  
• United Nations. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA)
  • Integrated Regional Information Network for West Africa (IRIN)
    Daily and regional news bulletins; plus links to individual country news reports.
    - Latest news on Guinea-Bissau
  • ReliefWeb on Guinea Bissau
    Breaking and recent news reports on conditions in Guinea-Bissau, from IRIN-WA and other news services.
  
  
• UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Guinea-Bissau Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
  
  
• United States Agencies on Guinea-Bissau (Washington, DC)
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    --  US-Guinea Bissau Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Guinea Bissau, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Central Intelligence Agency. World Factbook: Guinea Bissau (2008)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State: Guinea-Bissau Country Report on Human Rights Practices:  1997 |  1998 |  1999 |  2000 |  2001 |  2002 |  2003 |  2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Guinea-Bissau economy (International Trade Administration)
    
    
  • United States Institute of Peace Library:  Peace Agreement, Abuja, Nigeria, November 1998 (USIP Library, Peace Agreements Digital Collections)
  
  
• University of Wisconsin Libraries: Africa Focus--Sights and Sounds of a Continent (Madison, Wisconsin)
  A collection of searchable, full texts of historical accounts in English for West African history, 1526-1680 -- especially for areas now known as Cape Verde, Guinea Bissau, Guinea, and Sierra Leone. As of September 2008, there are 9 E-Books on offer, including one reference work:
  • A guide to original sources for precolonial western Africa published in European languages. By J.D. Fage. -- Madison, Wisconsin: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin, 1994.
  
  
• The World Bank on Guinea Bissau (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank in Guinea Bissau, 1999--
    A country brief and a profile of economic indicators; plus a searchable database.