09 NOV 98 - 13:16

Guinea-Bissau: First Aid Flight Arrives at Reopened Capital Airport

Bissau, Nov. 9 (Lusa) - The first humanitarian aid flight into Bissau's just reopened airport landed Monday with aid personnel and emergency medicines for war-wracked Guinea-Bissau.

The flight was one of two planned by the European Union's ECHO aid organization this week, officials in Brussels said.

The Osvaldo Vieira airport, closed when much of the military rveolted against President Nino Vieira June 7, was reopened following the peace accord signed Nov. 2 in Nigeria. - Lusa

09 NOV 98 - 10:41

Guinea-Bissau: Opposition party believes it will be difficult to hold election by next March

Bissau, Nov. 9 (Lusa) - The floor leader of the Resistance Movement of Guinea-Bissau/Bafata Movement (RGB/MB), Heldez Vaz, said in Bissau last week it might be ''very difficult, if not even impossible,'' to hold a general election in the country by the end of March next year.

Under the peace accord of Abuja, which was recently signed by President ''Nino'' Vieira and rebel leader Brig. Ansumane Mane in the Nigerian capital, a general election is scheduled to be held before the end of March next year.

Vaz said he believed that counting from December at least six months were needed to prepare the polls, including a new voter registration process, because of which he thought that June next year was the most suitable date for a general election in his country.-Lusa

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