11 DEZ 98 - 13:44

Guinea-Bissau: Senegalese Border Troops Said to Block Aid Convoy

Dakar, Dec. 11 (Lusa) - Senegalese border troops have held up a World Food Program aid convoy destined for Guinea-Bissau for a week, the Senegalese daily "Sud Quotidiene" reported Friday.

The newspaper quoted a driver in the 11-truck convoy, loaded with more than 500 tons of food and other basic goods, as saying border troops at Wassadou were refusing to allow them to cross into Guinea-Bissau, despite a safeconduct pass from the Senegalese interior ministry in Dakar.

11 DEZ 98 - 13:27

Guinea-Bissau: Vieira, Mane Meeting in Togo Likely Postponed Due UN Consultations

Bissau, Dec. 11 (Lusa) - The announced meeting of Guinea-Bissau President Nino Vieira and rebel military chief Brig. Ansumane Mane in Togo Friday may be postponed for up to two days due to diplomatic consultations at the United Nations, diplomatic sources told Lusa.

They said the first face-to-face meeting of the archrivals and Prime Minister-designate Francisco Fadul in Lome would likely await the outcome of talks Friday at the UN between the Security Council and ambassadors from countries of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).

The talks in Lome between Guinea-Bissau's opposing leaders is to be hosted by Togolese President Gnassibe Eyadema, the current head of ECOWAS, which mediated Guinea-Bissau's Nov. 2 peace accord.

The meeting aims to resolve a deadlock in the attribution of posts in Bissau's new "national unity" government and to speed the sending of an ECOWAS peacekeeping force, which replace Vieira's allied foreign troops.

11 DEZ 98 - 12:25

Guinea-Bissau: Demonstrators Demand President Vieira's Resignation

Bissau, Dec. 11 (Lusa) - About 1,000 people demonstrated peacefully outside the Guinea-Bissau parliament Thursday, demanding the resignation of President Nino Vieira and the withdrawal of foreign troops backing his lame-duck administration.

The demonstrators, mobilized by some 10 Bissau organizations, jeered legislators of the ruling PAIGC party considered as supporters of Vieira.

Parliament, with the backing of some PAIGC deputies, approved a motion calling for Vieira's immediate resignation last month.

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