UNIOGBIS: DAILY PRESS REVIEW HIGHLIGHTS – Thursday, February,06th - 2014 None of the articles and/or statements hereby included represents the views and opinion of UNIOGBIS. The aim of this daily Guinea-Bissau press review is solely to provide recipients with an overview of some of the information available on the web or Bissau-Guinean radios on selected topics. For stories about UNIOGBIS, please visit our site uniogbis.unmissions.org Guinea-Bissau: the military are not trouble makers-Presidential candidate Dakar, 6 February (APS ) - António Afonso Té, a presidential candidate in the 16 March elections said recurrent crisis and cyclic violence that have happened in the country are not due to the military but are the consequences of a declining and disappearing State. The leader of the Republican Party for Independence and Development (PRID, Portuguese acronym) and coordinator of Guinea-Bissau Forum, an organization of 24 opposition parties, said he is saddened by the “non-State” situation in his country. Half of Guinean women are still victim of genital mutilations in the country-UNICEF, UNFPA Bissau 06 February. (R. Pindjiguiti) - Half of Guinean women 15- 49 years old are still subject to genital mutilations in the country, UNICEF and UNFPA revealed today, in Bissau, in a joint communiqué on the occasion of the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, this 6 February. 272 to 500 girls are exposed to genital mutilations in Guinea-Bissau, including children less than four years old and babies less that 12 months old, the communiqué reads. On his part, Plan International (an international NGO) recommends the commitment of the Government in the fight against excision and has promised to launch a sensitization campaign towards communities through a multifaceted approach. Domingos Simões Pereira stands for the leadership of PAIGC Bissau - 6 February (PNN) - Domingos Simões Pereira said on Wednesday, in Cacheu, north of Guinea-Bissau that he will run for the leadership of PAIGC. He made this statement after the release of the results over the vote of delegates at the 8th Congress of the party, who rejected yesterday, the amendment of the status of the party which freed the country. Delegates (almost 1200) also adopted the strategic plan of the party by 1111 votes. A presidential candidate in Guinea-Bissau for a strategic partnership with Dakar Dakar, 5 February (APS) – Guinea-Bissau and Senegal must have a « privileged strategic partnership » for the better exploitation of their common natural resources and stability among the two countries, said on Wednesday, in Dakar, Antonio Afonso Té, a 16 March presidential candidate in Guinea-Bissau. He promised to give “Senegalese-Guinean relations a new impetus “
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