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Bissau, 3 May 2016 - Participants in the two-day talks on stability - "No Mistida i Stability" (we want stability, in Creole) which took place on 27-28 March at the National Assembly in Bissau, organized by UNIOGBIS, recommended that the organs of sovereignty and the nation’s res
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From left to right: Octavio Lopes, Representative of the President, the Speaker Cipriano Cassama and SRSG Miguel Trovoada
Bissau, April 21, 2016, UNIOGBIS - The Ministry of Internal Affairs in collaboration with the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office for Guinea-Bissau –UNIOGBIS- held in Bubaque in the archipelago of Bijagos from 21 to 22 April, a conference on maritime and border security, combating drug trafficking and protection of natural resources.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today announced the appointment of Modibo Touré of Mali as his new Special Representative for Guinea-Bissau and Head of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS).
Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations have signed today a Partnership Framework for the period 2016-2020. Both signatories, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in the country, Miguel Trovoada, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Artur Silva, praised the long-standing relationship between the UN and Guinea-Bissau.
A two-day meeting on 27-28 April – No mistida i estabilidade - will be held at the national parliament building in Bissau, with a view to promoting a reflection to support Guinea-Bissau entities in the search for a national consensus around stability.
Partnership Framework between the Government of Guinea-Bissau and the United Nations team for the period 2016-2020 will be signed on April 28, Thursday at 09:00 in the government palace by the UN Secretary general's Special Representative for Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau, Miguel Trovoada and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Artur Silva.
April 7, 2016 (Menu / News / Media / Radio) - April usually marks the beginning of the harvest and marketing of cashew nuts that since 1976 has become the largest export product for Guinea-Bissau, taking especially in recent years, a very significant weight in the economy.
On March 8 another International Women's Day was celebrated in Guinea-Bissau, under the slogan "50/50 by 2030: Promotion of equality between men and women" with various initiatives to recall the struggle of Bissau-Guinean women, their difficulties and achievements throughout the decades in the struggle for rights and equal opportunities.
Bissau, March 2, 2016 (UNIOGBIS / UIP) - Concerned about the political situation, Bissau-Guineans call on political actors to take into account the recommendations of the UN Security Council that on 26 February extended the mandate of the Integrated UN Office for Peacebuilding in Guinea-Bissau (UNIOGBIS) for another year.