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After Côte d’Ivoire, the Security Council ended its 24-hour visit to Guinea-Bissau today after a last meeting with the President of the Republic, Jose Mario Vaz.
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The mission was co-led by Ambassador Kacou Houadja Léon Adom of Côte d’Ivoire and Ambassador Anatolio Ndong Mba of Equatorial Guinea, which holds the Council presidency during February. Addressing the media at the Bissau…
The Media Innovation Consortium of Guinea-Bissau (CMICS) was presented to the public today at a press conference in Bissau. To mark the occasion, it launched a grant competition for investigative journalism.
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CMICS is a non-profit association that brings together the main networks and associations of journalists, such as the Union of Journalists and Technicians of Social Communication (SINJOTECS), the Journalists Association (OJ…
The Security Council issued a press statement today following the briefing on 21 December, on the special report of the Secretary-General on the assessment of UNIOGBIS and the latest political developments in Guinea-Bissau.
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Taye-Brook Zerihoun, Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs and Ambassador Mauro Vieira, Permanent Representative of Brazil to the United Nations, in his capacity as Chair of the Guinea-Bissau Configuration of the…
The UN Security Council today will discuss the situation in Guinea-Bissau and a Special report of the Secretary-General on the strategic assessment of the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau which recommends the exit of the Office by the end of 2020.
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The Special report of the Secretary-General on the United Nations Integrated Peacebuilding Office in Guinea-Bissau-UNIOGBIS- was released on 6 December, recommending the drawdown of the political mission in three phases…
The government of Guinea-Bissau and UNIOGBIS held a high-level conference on the theme "National Dialogue on Combating Transnational Organized Crime" from 28-29 November in Bissau.
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The objective was to establish a common understanding on the scale and urgency of combating transnational organized crime and the identification of short-term measures that could support the effective and efficient…
The workshop on the Mid-Term Review of the Strategic Partnership Framework between the United Nations and the Government of Guinea-Bissau (UNPAF) for the period 2016-2018 was on 8 November in Bissau.
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The UNPAF review is "an expression of the common will of the two parties to further strengthen their partnership to break the vicious circle of political instability and poverty, in which the country has plunged for more than…
The United Nations system in Guinea-Bissau marked the 73rd anniversary of the creation of the world organization with a two-day forum under the theme "A shared vision for the sustainable development of Guinea-Bissau-United Nations Partnership Agreement Framework (UNPAF)".
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In his speech, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG), Mr. José Viegas Filho emphasized the importance for the country to hold free, fair and credible elections this year. Acknowledging that there were…
World Food Day was observed on October 16 under the motto: "Our Actions are Our Future. A ZERO Hunger World by 2030 is possible. "
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In Guinea-Bissau, the date was commemorated in Nhinté village in the Cacheu region, in the presence of the UN Organization for Food and agriculture (FAO) and World Food Programme (WFP) Representatives, the Minister of…
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General in Guinea-Bissau (SRSG), Jose Viegas Filho, was on the ground today to see by himself the ongoing voter registration. SRSG Filho went to Bra neighborhood in Bissau talking to future electors and to those in charge at the registration on the site.
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"I am the UN SG Representative here in Guinea-Bissau. As you know we were asked to support the elections. So, I came here to see by myself if everything is going well, how is the registration process going,” he told them. He…
The registration process is underway in Guinea-Bissau, despite the difficulties. With about 150 teams on the ground, the Electoral Process Support Office (GTAPE) has already managed to register more than 30,000 voters.
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This week the Angolan government also transferred another US $ 1 million to the electoral support fund. However, Guineans continue to doubt whether the elections will take place on 18 November. In April 2018, President José…
It is with great personal and professional satisfaction that we, the United Nations in Guinea-Bissau, witnessed the approval by the National Assembly of the Gender Parity Quota Law, legislation that will allow the women of Guinea-Bissau to get a fairer representation in political office.
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We are impressed, as UN civil servants, to be able to witness this encouraging trend towards women’s empowerment first hand. The draft law is the result of hard work by Bissau-Guineans which started with the Canchungo…
On 2 August, the Parliament of Guinea-Bissau unanimously adopted a law that aims at ensuring the minimum 36 percent representation of women to be respected in elections or appointments to the National People's Congress and equality between men and women.
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With the approval of this law, Guinea-Bissau became part of the group of more than 80 countries that adopted corrective and temporary measures to advance women's participation in politics and decision-making. Until moment of…