Unbelievable to see an African country becoming ungovernable because of drug
palaver.
source, bbc world service.

Guinea-Bissau 'ashamed of incompetent reputation'
 Guinea-Bissau's small, often uninhabited, islands are handy smuggling points
for drug traffickers

Guinea-Bissau's President Malam Bacai Sanha has said his citizens are ashamed of
being thought incapable of solving the coup-ridden nation's problems.
"We are not animals, but human beings who know what they want, men who know how
to build a peaceful, stable nation," AFP quoted him as saying.
He was talking at the opening of a national reconciliation conference.
Next month West Africa's regional body is to hold an emergency meeting about
deploying troops to Guinea-Bissau.
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The current Ecowas chairman, Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan, has said the
organisation has the capacity to send the 600 soldiers requested by Mr Sanha's
government.

In recent years, the tiny West African nation has become a major transit hub for
cocaine smuggled from Latin America to Europe, and has suffered much political
unrest as a result.
"We are ashamed of being seen as people incapable of finding solutions to the
problems in their country," said Mr Sanha, who came to power in elections last
year following the assassination of President Joao Bernardo Vieira.
Days after a mutiny in April, in which the army chief was ousted, two top
military officers were named by the US as "drug kingpins", and had their
US-based assets frozen.
And earlier this month, the EU said it was ending its mission to reform
Guinea-Bissau's security forces because law and order had deteriorated.




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