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Guinea-Bissau: PAIGC-MADEM Alliance Against Sissoco

The Turkish President, RECEP TAYYIP ERDOGAN, with whom USE maintains close relations, could provide important support. The Turks financed the rehabilitation of 300 km of roads and will move forward, in a similar manner, with the construction of the new Bissau Hospital, to be located on the site of the former Military Hospital, in addition to the work on the international airport, which is being accelerated in view of the electoral calendar, financed under preferential conditions (low interest rates and an extended grace period). The ongoing work on military installations, which has been publicly praised by the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, BIAGUE NA N'TAN, the main pillar of USE's power (AM 1478), will also be financed with Turkish credits and counterparts. READ MORE