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Other Ministries and Projects in Guinea-Bissau

• Mission Life
  Mission Life is a Christian Medical and Agricultural Outreach in the eastern village of Sincha botche. The website provides valuable information on the Fula people of Guinea-Bissau, the nation, and the work of the mission.
• PROCAJU - http://www.steele.com/cashew/index.html
  Currently not functioning but good information.
• Enterprise Works - http://www.enterpriseworks.org/prog_profile_treecrops_gb.asp
• Love Through Faith Ministries
  MAFI is a Guinean Ministry under the leadership of Pastor Bobo Gomes Co.
• Tear Fund
  Has accomplished many fantastic works through nationals. Support them!

General Information Links

• General Information - http://www.bissau.com/
• General Information - http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/guineabissau.html
• General Information - http://www.uiowa.edu/~africart/toc/countries/Guinea-Bissau.html
• General Information - CIA Brief on Guinea-Bissau
  Generally good country information.
• General Information - http://www.atlapedia.com/online/countries/guin_bis.htm
• General Information - http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107604.html
  Current and concise information.
• General Information - http://www.bartleby.com/65/gu/GuineaBi.html
  General Information and historical data.
• General Information - Current Events - http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/freeworld/2002/countryratings/guineabissau.htm
• General Information - http://us-africa.tripod.com/guineabis.html
• General Information - BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1043287.stm
• General Information - http://www.world-gazetteer.com/fr/fr_gw.htm - largest cities... etc..
• General Information - http://www.harding.edu/cwm/Mission%20Efforts/holtonsurvey/Reports.html

Resource and News Links

• Links - KSoft.
  Link Resource
• Links - http://www.sas.upenn.edu/African_Studies/Country_Specific/G_Bissau.html
• Links - SUL Stanford Africa Search
  A very good list of links related to social, statistical and political information.
• Links - http://www.uneca.org/aisi/nici/country_profiles/Guinea-Bissau/biscond.htm
  
  
• News - http://businessafrica.hispeed.com/africabiz/countries/bissau.htm
• News - http://allafrica.com/guineabissau/
• News - http://www.irinnews.org/frontpage.asp?SelectRegion=West_Africa&SelectCountry=Guinea-Bissau
• News - http://wwww.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/vCD/Guinea-Bissau?OpenDocument&StartKey=Guinea-Bissau&ExpandView
• News - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/country_profiles/1043287.stm
• News - http://www.afrol.com/Countries/Guinea_Bissau/netscapeindex.htm

History and Current Events

• History - http://www.traveldocs.com/gw/history.htm
• History - http://www.lonelyplanet.com/destinations/africa/guinea_bissau/history.htm
• History - BBC - http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/index.shtml
  
  
• Current Events - http://timelines.ws/countries/GUINEA_BISSAU.HTML
  A Timeline of the events related to the civil crisis of 1998-1999
• Current Events - http://www.historyguy.com/Guinea_Bissau_Civil_War.html
• Current Events - BBC - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/1043376.stm

Reports

• Reports - Government Officials - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chiefs/chiefs74.html
  Current Govt. officials
• Reports - Human Rights
• Reports - Data Rescue for Guinea-Bissau
  List of reports about climatological data.
• Reports - Linguistic Information - http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=Guinea%2DBissau
  Thorough representation of all 27 linguistic/ethnic groups of Guinea-Bissau.
• Reports - Development Statistics - http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/2002/en/indicator/cty_f_GNB.html
  UN information on status of human conditions in Guinea-Bissau.
• Reports - http://www.afrol.com/Countries/Guinea_Bissau/netscapeindex.htm

Development and Humanitarian Links

• International Monetary Fund - on Guinea-Bissau
• ReliefWeb report on Guinea-Bissau - 2003

Travel Links

• Travel Notes
• Weather in Guinea Bissau - Washington Post
• US Travel Advisory
• Africa Guide Travel Notes
  Good travel information, practical and informative.
• Embassy World
• Embassy.org
• Currency Converter
• Excite Travel Information
• CDC Travel Information
  Center for Disease Control &endash; Travel Info and Immunizations.
• CDC Information on Malaria and Child Travel
  Information about Malaria and travel.
• http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/travel.html
  Immunization Facts

Maps

• Calle.com
  Incredible site! Every last village in Guinea-Bissau can be located and identified by name. You have to know the correct spelling to find places. Check it out.

  Locator Maps of the following sites where will could likely visit:

  • Bissau
    Capital City of Guinea-Bissau and historical site
  • Sincha Boche
    Site of the Mission Life project, and Fula village
  • Djiu de Gallinhas
    Location of the island church planting work and historical site.
  • Cacheu
    Historical site.
  • Canchungo
    Medical site
  • Gabu
    Eastern major city, location of JoCUM (YWAM) base.
  • Bolama
    First Portuguese govt office, historical site.
  • Kanabak Island
    Outreach to the Islands
• Map of Bissau
  Basic Streetmap
• Guinea-Bissau
  Roads and Sites
• Guinea-Bissau

Business and Guinea-Bissau

• Ebay Search on Guinea-Bissau

Partners and Friends

• http://www.puravidacoffee.com
  Good friends, doing a good work, and making good business. Great coffee!!! Buy it.
• http://kabiza.com/
  Jon Blanc and his insightful views on African culture and stories. Jon rescued orphans and helped develop programs in East Africa.