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1911 |
Great Britain's National Insurance Act created National Insurance, originally a system of health insurance for industrial workers based on contributions from employers, the government, and the workers themselves. Links: Guinea-Bissau 
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1956 |
Aristides Pereira (1924-2011) co-founded of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde, or PAIGC, which operated in secret in Guinea-Bissau and in Cape Verde. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Cape Verde
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1973 Sep 24 |
The PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde) declared the independence of Guinea-Bissau from Portugal. This became national day for Guinea-Bissau. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
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1975 May 25 |
ECOWAS Treaty1 was signed. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) was formed in Nigeria with 15 members that included: Benin, Cape Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo and Upper Volta (later Burkina Faso). Links: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Nigeria, Gambia, Guinea, ECOWAS, Cape Verde
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1978 |
The Barnett Formula, devised by Joel Barnett, was introduced as mechanism used by The Treasury in the UK to adjust the amounts of public expenditure allocated to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales automatically to reflect changes in spending levels allocated to public services in England, England and Wales or Great Britain, as appropriate. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland
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1980 Nov 13 |
A military coup led by Joao Bernardo Viera deposed President Luis Cabral of the Republic of Guinea-Bissau. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1994 |
Guinea-Bissau held democratic elections. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1995 Jan 1 |
Chile, Egypt, Guinea-Bissau, Poland and South Korea joined the non-permanent sector of the Security Council. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Chile, Poland, UN, South Korea, Egypt
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1996 Jul 17 |
The Community of Portuguese-Speaking countries was formed. It included Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome and Principe. Leaders then held their first summit meeting. Links: Angola, Brazil, Guinea-Bissau, Portugal, Mozambique, Sao Tome, Cape Verde
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1998 Jun 9 |
Senegal and Guinea sent troops to aid Pres. Vieira in Guinea-Bissau. Rebels led by Ansumane Mane had just staged a coup to end the 18-year rule of Pres. Vieira, who was accused of corruption. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Guinea
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1998 Jun 11 |
Between 1,500 and 2,000 foreigners, mostly Portuguese, were evacuated by ship from the capital of Guinea-Bissau, where civil war raged. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Portugal
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1998 Jun 12 |
In Guinea-Bissau some 200 people drowned as they fled the country by boat. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Tragedy
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1998 Jun 14 |
In Guinea-Bissau the fighting intensified and thousands of people sought escape routes. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1998 Jun 16 |
Senegal fired artillery into Guinea-Bissau to support Pres. Vieira. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal
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1998 Jun |
In Guinea-Bissau a rebellion was triggered by the dismissal of Brigadier Ansumane Mane. The top military commander was dismissed for allegedly running guns to separatist fighters in Senegal. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1998 Jul 11 |
In Guinea-Bissau Radio Bombolon mixed music and junta rhetoric and featured the Iva and Ichy local hit duo. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Pop&Rock
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1998 Jul 26 |
In Guinea-Bissau army rebels and the government agreed to a cease-fire and promised to open peace talks. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1998 Oct 21 |
In Guinea-Bissau heavy artillery fire rocked the capital and rebels claimed to have captured Bafata, the 2nd largest town. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1998 Nov 2 |
In Guinea-Bissau the government and rebels signed an agreement to end the 5-month civil war. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1999 Feb 1 |
In Guinea-Bissau thousands fled the capital as fighting intensified between rebels and loyalists. At least 15 people were reported killed. Most of the 6,000 member army joined the rebellion to depose Pres. Joao Bernardo Vieira. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1999 Feb 2 |
In Guinea-Bissau a grenade destroyed a church and killed 3 people. 35 people were reported killed since fighting began Jan 31. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1999 Feb 3 |
In Guinea-Bissau Pres. Joao Bernardo Vieira agreed to a cease fire with rebel leader Ansumane Mane. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1999 May 7 |
In Guinea-Bissau renegade troops forced the surrender of the 600-man presidential guard and ousted Pres. Joao Bernardo Vieira, who sought refuge in the Portuguese Embassy. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1999 May 14 |
In Guinea-Bissau Malan Bacai Sanha (52), former head of parliament, was declared the 3rd president. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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1999 |
The UN began a peace-building operation in Guinea-Bissau. The Security Council in late February 2020 confirmed an earlier plan to end the UN mission by Dec. 31, 2020. Links: Guinea-Bissau, UN
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2000 Jan |
In Guinea-Bissau Kumba Yala won the presidency with 72% of the vote. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2000 Dec 22 |
The US, Japan, Europe and other industrial powers agreed to provide debt relief to 22 poor nations: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Gambia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mozambique, Niger, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Bolivia, Guyana, Honduras and Nicaragua. Links: Benin, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Niger, Senegal, USA, Japan, Cameroon, EU, Malawi, Rwanda, Mozambique, Uganda, Zambia, Guyana, Madagascar, Sao Tome, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea
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2002 Sep 14 |
In Ivory Coast’s Azagny National Park there were only 39,000 western chimpanzees left of an original 600,000. The western chimpanzee, one of four subspecies of the common chimpanzee, was already extinct in the wild in Benin, Gambia and Togo. It was almost extinct in Senegal, Burkina Faso, Guinea, Guinea Bissau and Ghana. Links: Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Senegal, Ghana, Animal, Guinea
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2002 |
Guinea-Bissau Pres. Kumba Yala dissolved Parliament and delayed elections 3 times. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2003 Sep 14 |
In the West Africa country of Guinea-Bissau the army launched a coup, arresting the president and ordering government ministers detained. Verissimo Correia Seabre and fellow senior officers arrested the elected president, Kumba Yala. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2003 Sep 16 |
Guinea-Bissau's army chief of staff who overthrew the West African nation's president has won an agreement from political leaders to have presidential powers until new elections are held. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2003 Sep 28 |
In Guinea-Bissau senior army officers, who staged a recent coup, installed Henrique Rosa as civilian president and Artur Sanha as prime minister to govern the West African country until elections. Civil servants hadn't been paid in nearly a year and teachers hadn't been paid in two. Soldiers were getting bags of rice instead of paychecks. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2004 Mar 8 |
Guinea-Bissau soldiers released deposed Pres. Kumba Yala from house arrest, six months after he was ousted in a bloodless coup on Sep 14. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2004 Sep 15 |
Eight French speaking African countries began retiring over 1 billion in decaying currency with new CFA francs. Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal and Togo had until Dec 31 to turn in old bills for new ones. Links: Benin, Burkina Faso, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Mali, Niger, Senegal, Togo, France, Money
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2004 Oct 6 |
In Guinea-Bissau soldiers recently back from a U.N. peacekeeping mission and angry over unpaid wages staged a revolt, surrounding a main military building in the West African nation's capital. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2005 Jun 19 |
Guinea-Bissau began its first presidential election since a 2003 coup, with 13 contenders vying to become the West African country's leader. The candidates include the man the military ousted two years ago. It was later alleged that Colombian drug dealers funded the re-election of Pres. Joao Bernardo Vieira. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Colombia
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2007 Jan 3 |
China's Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing arrived in the central African nation of Guinea-Bissau for cooperation talks. His 7-nation tour reflected Chinese interest in Africa. Links: Guinea-Bissau, China
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2009 Jan 10 |
In Guinea-Bissau a boat carrying passengers on the Geba River capsized in strong winds, leaving 42 people missing. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Tragedy
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2009 Mar 2 |
In Guinea-Bissau soldiers assassinated President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira in his palace hours after a bomb blast killed his rival. A pre-dawn gunfight at the palace erupted hours after armed forces chief of staff Gen. Batiste Tagme na Waie, a longtime rival of the president, was killed by a bomb blast at his headquarters. The military insisted no coup was taking place. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Assassin
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2009 Mar 3 |
Lawmakers in Guinea-Bissau voted to uphold the constitution by which parliament speaker Raimundo Pereira succeeds as interim president, following the assassination of the head of state. Pereira took the oath of office. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2009 Jun 5 |
Guinea-Bissau authorities said they foiled an attempted coup, and security forces killed two people allegedly involved, including a candidate in the upcoming presidential ballot. Guinea-Bissau's intelligence service said the coup plot was masterminded by former Defense Minister Helder Proenca and that presidential candidate Baciro Dabo was also involved. Both men died in separate shootings. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2009 Jun 28 |
Guinea-Bissau held elections for a new leader to replace the late President Joao Bernardo "Nino" Vieira, who was assassinated more than three months ago. The population of Guinea-Bissau stood at about 1.5 million. Leading a pack of 11 candidates were three former presidents seeking to retake the post. The election was marked by one of the lowest turnouts ever. If no candidate wins an overall majority in the first round, the election will go to a run-off between the two highest-placed contenders on July 28. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2009 Jul 5 |
Guinea-Bissau said the second round of presidential elections has been brought forward to July 26 to enable farmers to continue harvesting unhindered. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2009 Jul 26 |
Guinea-Bissau voters went to the polls for a presidential runoff between two former heads of state. The West African country’s veteran leader was assassinated in March. On July 29 election officials announced that Malam Bacai Sanha was the new president. Sanha took 63.39% of the runoff vote, beating opponent Kumba Yala, who took 36.69%. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2009 |
A US diplomatic cable, revealed by WikiLeaks, said Guinea-Bissau was in danger of becoming Africa's first narco-state. Links: Guinea-Bissau, USA, Drugs
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2010 Feb 26 |
Sierra Leone and five other west African countries (Mauritania, Senegal, Guinea-Bissau, Gambia and Guinea) signed onto an action plan in Freetown for sustainable mangrove management. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Environment, Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Gambia, Guinea
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2010 Apr 1 |
In Guinea-Bissau renegade soldiers seized the head of the armed forces and briefly detained PM Carlos Gomes Jr. in an apparent coup attempt in the tiny, coup-plagued African nation where the president was assassinated last year. Hours later, the mutinous soldiers released the prime minister, but the head of the armed forces Zamora Induta remained under guard at a military base while Antonio Ndjai, his No. 2, appeared to be in control. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2010 Apr |
In Guinea-Bissau Colonel Samba Diallo, deputy director of military intelligence, was arrested with other top officers on suspicion of involvement in a March 2009 attack that killed armed forces chief of staff Gen. Batiste Tagme na Waie. Diallo He was released after 8 months in detention. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2010 May 31 |
French President Nicolas Sarkozy opened a France-Africa summit saying Africa will fuel world economic growth for decades to come and must have a stronger voice in global affairs. Guinea Bissau's Pres. Malam Bacai Sanha, among the 38 African leaders attending the summit in Nice, called for an international effort to help him fight drug trafficking in his west African country. Links: Guinea-Bissau, France, Africa
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2010 Jul 22 |
The UN Security Council pressed for effective actions to combat the growing threat of drug trafficking and organized crime in the west African nation of Guinea-Bissau. Links: Guinea-Bissau, UN
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2010 Sep 17 |
Nigeria’s Pres. Goodluck Jonathan, current chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS), said Guinea-Bissau risks sliding into anarchy unless a security solution, including taming the military, is found in the coup-prone west African nation. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Nigeria, ECOWAS
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2011 Jun 29 |
Guinea-Bissau’s economy ministry said the World Bank is to allocate 6.4 million dollars (nearly 4.5 million euros) to help it fight poverty and boost growth. Links: Guinea-Bissau, World Bank
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2011 Jul 13 |
In Guinea-Bissau health workers began a five-day strike to press demands pay bonuses and better working conditions in the west African country. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Labor
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2011 Jul 19 |
In Guinea-Bissau thousands took to the streets of Bissau for the second rally in five days to demand the resignation of PM Carlos Gomes Junior, accused of hindering an assassination probe. The country is classified by the United Nations as one of the world's poorest, coming in at 175 out of 177 on the Human Development Index. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2011 Aug 5 |
In Guinea-Bissau thousands took to the streets of Bissau for the third rally in three weeks to demand the resignation of PM Carlos Gomes Junior, who is accused of hindering an assassination probe. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Mad Crowd
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2011 Aug 31 |
Guinea-Bissau Pres. Malam Bacai Sanha was (64) evacuated to neighboring Senegal for medical care. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2011 Sep 18 |
Guinea-Bissau's diabetic Pres. Malam Bacai Sanha returned home after being hospitalized in Senegal. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2011 Oct |
Guinea-Bissau President Malam Bacai Sanha appointed Jose Americo Bubo Na Tchuto, labeled by the US Treasury Department as a drug kingpin, to head the Navy. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2011 Nov 22 |
The president of Guinea-Bissau, Malam Bacai Sanha (64), was hospitalized in Senegal's capital Dakar and will later be transferred to Paris for treatment. Links: Guinea-Bissau
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2011 Dec 13 |
In Guinea-Bissau a transport strike paralyzed much of the country, forcing residents to trek into work by foot, as taxi drivers stayed off the roads to protest police extortion. Links: Guinea-Bissau, Labor
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