One person in ten in Guinea is a refugee from either Liberia or Sierra Leone.
In Guinea, female genital mutilation carries the death penalty, but it has never been applied.
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Coups and coup attempts are common in Guinea-Bissau since it won independence from Portugal in 1974.
Studies in guinea pigs have shown that flu is easier to transmit in cold, dry conditions.
Less successful have been Senegal's intervention in Guinea-Bissau in June and South Africa's recent venture into Lesotho.
Last year the UN Security Council warned that renewed political instability was allowing drug-trafficking to flourish in Guinea-Bissau.
Two children were also killed in Guinea and Senegal after being hit by vehicles passing through their villages.
Prosecutors said the evidence includes a series of audio recordings and videotaped meetings over several months in Guinea-Bissau.
The U.S. Embassy in Senegal said the situation in Guinea-Bissau is unclear, but it is closely monitoring events.
If this month's peace agreement for Sierra Leone survives, the excuse for a permanent security clampdown in Guinea will be removed.
In 1994 he was chosen as president in Guinea-Bissau's first free elections.
The opposition coalition in Guinea meanwhile said it would not participate in talks to resolve the political crisis unless Capt Camara stepped down.
He tested his system in 1999 in Guinea, where a painfully slow Internet connection compelled aid workers to pass along floppy disks instead.
Angola said it has a number of troops in Guinea-Bissau to help reform the country's armed forces, but said it would unilaterally withdraw them.
But Ecowas warned the coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau that if they failed to agree to the deployment within 72 hours, they face targeted sanctions.
The first round of voting in a presidential election was held March in Guinea-Bissau, and campaigning for the second round was about to begin.
The measles epidemic which preceded the allergen study in Guinea-Bissau killed one in four of those children under the age of three who became infected.
The bottom line is that the vast majority of our resources, Bogoch said, should be focused on preventing the spread of infection in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone.
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Nor will Sierra Leoneans wholeheartedly welcome the return of Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, their elected president, who has lived in exile in Guinea since a coup last May.
Adm Na Tchuto - whose assets were frozen by Washington in 2010 - was arrested after a failed coup in Guinea-Bissau in December 2011, but released in June.
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And that's follows recent seizures(ph) in Guinea-Bissau - that's a former Portuguese colony across the border from Senegal - from Mauritania, another neighbor to Senegal, and then right here in Senegal.
In theory, the poll could help create a new era in Guinea-Bissau's politics, not least because the PAIGC also has a majority in the National Assembly for the first time since 1999.
The U.S. Treasury Department designated Na Tchuto as a drug kingpin in 2010 for his alleged role in the cocaine trade in Guinea-Bissau, freezing any assets he may have had in the United States.
The U.S. Treasury Department designated Na Tchuto as a drug kingpin in 2010 for his alleged role in the cocaine trade in Guinea-Bissau, freezing any assets he might have had in the United States.
Similar trainings have or will also be held during 2012 for the 2nd time in Gabon (23-27 July), in Guinea (19-22 November), in Ghana (12-16 November) and for the 1st time in Chad (1-3 August).
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And it's apparently because policing especially in Guinea-Bissau, which is the weakest link, is so poor that these Latin American, South American drug cartels are using this region as a major transit hub to especially traffic cocaine as the drug of choice, and that's on to Europe.
Charlie Gillett, who presents the BBC World of Music programme, says there is nobody to compare to her, as she was popular in West Africa - after living in exile in Guinea - and East Africa - she recorded a version of the Swahili song Malaika, as well as her home in South Africa.
Eleven other men, including South African arms dealer Nick Du Toit, who testified that he was recruited by Mr Mann, are already serving sentences in Equatorial Guinea in connection with the coup attempt.
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