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"This crisis has gone on for more than 45 days," he said. "We have asked the new government for help which has yet to materialise."
Guinea-Bissau may have only five publications but none of them are now able to print.
Simao Abina at the government newspaper No Pintcha confirmed the news, or lack of news, with a simple statement. "We have ceased to exist since last December," he said.
An official at the national printing works explained that the paper for the publications had come from the Netherlands.
"But the type of paper we were using is no longer available on the Dutch market and we no longer have the resources to buy it from elsewhere," he said.
Joao de Barros, owner of Diaria de Biassau, which has a circulation of 1,500 -- four days a week -- has stocked up on paper in Senegal.
"But it cost me twice as much as before. I will therefore be obliged to increase the price of the newspaper or keep the same price but reduce the circulation," he said.
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Image of rims of paper at a paper mill, by Roslan Rahman.
Guinea-Bissau may have only five publications but none of them are now able to print.
Simao Abina at the government newspaper No Pintcha confirmed the news, or lack of news, with a simple statement. "We have ceased to exist since last December," he said.
An official at the national printing works explained that the paper for the publications had come from the Netherlands.
"But the type of paper we were using is no longer available on the Dutch market and we no longer have the resources to buy it from elsewhere," he said.
Joao de Barros, owner of Diaria de Biassau, which has a circulation of 1,500 -- four days a week -- has stocked up on paper in Senegal.
"But it cost me twice as much as before. I will therefore be obliged to increase the price of the newspaper or keep the same price but reduce the circulation," he said.
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Image of rims of paper at a paper mill, by Roslan Rahman.
