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Bissau airport opened

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    An Air Portugal jetliner carrying Guinea Bissau Prime Minister Francisco Fadul and other dignitaries landed in Bissau on Tuesday, marking the reopening of the Osvaldo Vieira airport which closed on 7 June 1998 because of military conflict, Lusa reported. Some 60 other Guinean Bissau and Portuguese officials were on board as well as Guinea Bissau refugees who fled to Portugal during the war.

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