Guinea-Bissau

context: Guinea-Bissau (i/ˈɡɪni bɪˈsaʊ/, GI-nee-bi-SOW), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau (Portuguese: República da Guiné-Bissau, pronounced: [ʁeˈpublikɐ dɐ ɡiˈnɛ biˈsaw]), is a country in West Africa. It covers 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi) with an estimated population of 1,704,000.
qas: answers: the Republic of Guinea-Bissau
question: What is the official name for Guinea-Bissau?

answers: West Africa
question: Where is Guinea-Bissau located?

answers: 13,948 sq mi
question: How many square miles is Guinea-Bissau?

answers: 1,704,000
question: What is the estimated population of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: 36,125
question: How many kilometers does Guinea-Bissau cover?

context: Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, as well as part of the Mali Empire. Parts of this kingdom persisted until the 18th century, while a few others were under some rule by the Portuguese Empire since the 16th century. In the 19th century, it was colonized as Portuguese Guinea. Upon independence, declared in 1973 and recognised in 1974, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's name to prevent confusion with Guinea (formerly French Guinea). Guinea-Bissau has a history of political instability since independence, and no elected president has successfully served a full five-year term.
qas: answers: Gabu
question: What kingdom was Guinea-Bissau once part of?

answers: Mali Empire
question: What empire was Guinea-Bissau once part of?

answers: 1973
question: What year was Guinea-Bissau declared independent?

answers: Guinea (formerly French Guinea)
question: What country did Guinea-Bissau seek to differentiate itself from?

answers: political instability
question: Guinea-Bissau has a history of what since independence?

context: Only 14% of the population speaks Portuguese, established as the official language in the colonial period. Almost half the population (44%) speaks Crioulo, a Portuguese-based creole language, and the remainder speak a variety of native African languages. The main religions are African traditional religions and Islam; there is a Christian (mostly Roman Catholic) minority. The country's per-capita gross domestic product is one of the lowest in the world.
qas: answers: 14%
question: What percentage of the population speaks Portuguese?

answers: 44%
question: What percentage of the population speaks Crioulo?

answers: African traditional religions and Islam
question: What are the two main religions?

answers: one of the lowest in the world
question: What is their gross domestic product status?

answers: Christian (mostly Roman Catholic)
question: What is the minority religion?

context: Guinea-Bissau is a member of the United Nations, African Union, Economic Community of West African States, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, the Latin Union, Community of Portuguese Language Countries, La Francophonie and the South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone.
qas: answers: Organisation of Islamic Cooperation
question: What Islamic organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?

answers: Community of Portuguese Language Countries
question: What Portuguese organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?

answers: Economic Community of West African States
question: What West African organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?

answers: South Atlantic Peace and Cooperation Zone
question: What South Atlantic organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?

answers: the Latin Union
question: What Latin organization does Guinea-Bissau belong to?

context: Guinea-Bissau was once part of the kingdom of Gabu, part of the Mali Empire; parts of this kingdom persisted until the 18th century. Other parts of the territory in the current country were considered by the Portuguese as part of their empire. Portuguese Guinea was known as the Slave Coast, as it was a major area for the exportation of African slaves by Europeans to the western hemisphere. Previously slaves had been traded by Arabs north to the northern part of Africa and into the Middle East.
qas: answers: Portuguese Guinea
question: What area was known as the Slave Coast?

answers: Europeans
question: Who exported African slaves to the western hemisphere?

answers: Gabu
question: What kingdom was Guinea-Bissau once a part of?

answers: until the 18th century
question: How long did the Mali Empire persist?

answers: Arabs
question: Who traded slaves into the Middle East?

context: Early reports of Europeans reaching this area include those of the Venetian Alvise Cadamosto's voyage of 1455, the 1479–1480 voyage by Flemish-French trader Eustache de la Fosse, and Diogo Cão. In the 1480s this Portuguese explorer reached the Congo River and the lands of Bakongo, setting up the foundations of modern Angola, some 4200 km down the African coast from Guinea-Bissau.
qas: answers: 1455
question: When was Alvise Cadamosto's voyage?

answers: 1479–1480
question: When was Eustache de la Fosse's voyage?

answers: Diogo Cão
question: What was the name of the Portuguese explorer?

answers: Congo River
question: What river did Diogo Cao reach in the 1480's?

answers: Angola
question: What country is about 4200 km from Guinea-Bissau?

context: Although the rivers and coast of this area were among the first places colonized by the Portuguese, who set up trading posts in the 16th century, they did not explore the interior until the 19th century. The local African rulers in Guinea, some of whom prospered greatly from the slave trade, controlled the inland trade and did not allow the Europeans into the interior. They kept them in the fortified coastal settlements where the trading took place. African communities that fought back against slave traders also distrusted European adventurers and would-be settlers. The Portuguese in Guinea were largely restricted to the port of Bissau and Cacheu. A small number of European settlers established isolated farms along Bissau's inland rivers.
qas: answers: the rivers and coast
question: What areas were the first places colonized by the Portuguese?

answers: 16th century
question: When did the Portuguese first set up trading posts in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: 19th century
question: When did the Portuguese explore the interior of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: local African rulers
question: Who controlled the inland trade in Guinea-Bissau during this time?

answers: Bissau and Cacheu
question: What ports were the Portuguese restricted to?

context: For a brief period in the 1790s, the British tried to establish a rival foothold on an offshore island, at Bolama. But by the 19th century the Portuguese were sufficiently secure in Bissau to regard the neighbouring coastline as their own special territory, also up north in part of present South Senegal.
qas: answers: the British
question: Who tried to establish a rival foothold at Bolama?

answers: the 1790s
question: When was a rival foothold  attempted at Bolama?

answers: the Portuguese
question: Who regarded Bolama as their own in the 19th century?

answers: part of present South Senegal
question: What other area did the Portuguese regard as their special territory?

answers: the British
question: What rival did the Portuguese fend off in Guinea-Bissau?

context: An armed rebellion beginning in 1956 by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) under the leadership of Amílcar Cabral gradually consolidated its hold on then Portuguese Guinea. Unlike guerrilla movements in other Portuguese colonies, the PAIGC rapidly extended its military control over large portions of the territory, aided by the jungle-like terrain, its easily reached borderlines with neighbouring allies, and large quantities of arms from Cuba, China, the Soviet Union, and left-leaning African countries. Cuba also agreed to supply artillery experts, doctors, and technicians. The PAIGC even managed to acquire a significant anti-aircraft capability in order to defend itself against aerial attack. By 1973, the PAIGC was in control of many parts of Guinea, although the movement suffered a setback in January 1973 when Cabral was assassinated.
qas: answers: African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC)
question: What group started an armed rebellion in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: 1956
question: When did the armed rebellion begin?

answers: Amílcar Cabral
question: Who was the leader of the armed rebellion?

answers: Cuba
question: Who supplied doctors and technicians to the rebels?

answers: January 1973
question: When was Cabral assassinated?

context: Independence was unilaterally declared on 24 September 1973. Recognition became universal following the 25 April 1974 socialist-inspired military coup in Portugal, which overthrew Lisbon's Estado Novo regime.
qas: answers: 24 September 1973
question: When was independence declared?

answers: 25 April 1974
question: What date was independence considered universal? 

answers: socialist-inspired military coup
question: What event caused the recognition to be universal?

answers: Portugal
question: Where did a coup take place?

answers: Lisbon's Estado Novo regime
question: Who was overthrown in the coup?

context: Luís Cabral, brother of Amílcar and co-founder of PAIGC, was appointed the first President of Guinea-Bissau. Following independence, the PAIGC killed thousands of local Guinean soldiers who had fought along with the Portuguese Army against guerrillas. Some escaped to settle in Portugal or other African nations. One of the massacres occurred in the town of Bissorã. In 1980 the PAIGC acknowledged in its newspaper Nó Pintcha (dated 29 November 1980) that many Gueinean soldiers had been executed and buried in unmarked collective graves in the woods of Cumerá, Portogole, and Mansabá.
qas: answers: Luís Cabral
question: Who was the first President of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: thousands
question: How many Guinean soldiers did the PAIGC kill?

answers: Bissorã
question: Where did one of the massacres occur?

answers: 29 November 1980
question: When did the PAIGC acknowledge the executions?

answers: Cumerá, Portogole, and Mansabá
question: Where were the soldiers buried?

context: The country was controlled by a revolutionary council until 1984. The first multi-party elections were held in 1994. An army uprising in May 1998 led to the Guinea-Bissau Civil War and the president's ousting in June 1999. Elections were held again in 2000, and Kumba Ialá was elected president.
qas: answers: a revolutionary council
question: Who controlled the country prior to 1984?

answers: 1994
question: When were the first multi-party elections held?

answers: An army uprising
question: What led to the Guinea-Bissau Civil War?

answers: June 1999
question: When was the president ousted?

answers: Kumba Ialá
question: Who was elected president in the 2000 election?

context: In September 2003, a military coup was conducted. The military arrested Ialá on the charge of being "unable to solve the problems". After being delayed several times, legislative elections were held in March 2004. A mutiny of military factions in October 2004 resulted in the death of the head of the armed forces and caused widespread unrest.
qas: answers: September 2003
question: When was a military coup conducted?

answers: Ialá
question: Who did the military arrest?

answers: March 2004
question: When were legislative elections held?

answers: October 2004
question: When did the mutiny of military factions occur?

answers: the head of the armed forces
question: Who died in the mutiny?

context: In June 2005, presidential elections were held for the first time since the coup that deposed Ialá. Ialá returned as the candidate for the PRS, claiming to be the legitimate president of the country, but the election was won by former president João Bernardo Vieira, deposed in the 1999 coup. Vieira beat Malam Bacai Sanhá in a runoff election. Sanhá initially refused to concede, claiming that tampering and electoral fraud occurred in two constituencies including the capital, Bissau.
qas: answers: June 2005
question: After the coup, when were presidential elections held?

answers: Ialá
question: At that time, who ran claiming to be the legitimate president of the country?

answers: João Bernardo Vieira
question: Who won the election?

answers: Malam Bacai Sanhá
question: Who did Vieira beat in a runoff election?

answers: 1999
question: When was Vieira, a former president, deposed?

context: Despite reports of arms entering the country prior to the election and some "disturbances during campaigning," including attacks on government offices by unidentified gunmen, foreign election monitors described the 2005 election overall as "calm and organized".
qas: answers: arms
question: What was reported to be entering the country prior to the election?

answers: attacks on government offices
question: What type of "disturbances" were reported during the campaign?

answers: "calm and organized"
question: How did foreign election monitors describe the election?

answers: 2005
question: What year was the election held?

answers: foreign
question: Where the election monitors local, or foreign?

context: Three years later, PAIGC won a strong parliamentary majority, with 67 of 100 seats, in the parliamentary election held in November 2008. In November 2008, President Vieira's official residence was attacked by members of the armed forces, killing a guard but leaving the president unharmed.
qas: answers: November 2008
question: When was the parliamentary election held?

answers: PAIGC
question: Who won a strong majority in the election?

answers: 67
question: How many seats did PAIGC win in the election?

answers: President Vieira's
question: Whose residence was attacked by members of the armed forces?

answers: November 2008
question: When did the attack on the residence occur?

context: On 2 March 2009, however, Vieira was assassinated by what preliminary reports indicated to be a group of soldiers avenging the death of the head of joint chiefs of staff, General Batista Tagme Na Wai. Tagme died in an explosion on Sunday, 1 March 2009, target of an assassination. Military leaders in the country pledged to respect the constitutional order of succession. National Assembly Speaker Raimundo Pereira was appointed as an interim president until a nationwide election on 28 June 2009. It was won by Malam Bacai Sanhá.
qas: answers: Vieira
question: Who was assassinated on 2 March 2009?

answers: General Batista Tagme Na Wai
question: Who was assassinated on 1 March 2009?

answers: Military leaders
question: Who pledged to respect the constitutional order of succession?

answers: Raimundo Pereira
question: Who was appointed interim president?

answers: Malam Bacai Sanhá
question: Who won the election in June 2009?

context: On the evening of 12 April 2012, members of the country's military staged a coup d'état and arrested the interim president and a leading presidential candidate. Former vice chief of staff, General Mamadu Ture Kuruma, assumed control of the country in the transitional period and started negotiations with opposition parties.
qas: answers: 12 April 2012
question: When was a coup d'etat staged?

answers: members of the country's military
question: Who staged the coup d'etat?

answers: Mamadu Ture Kuruma
question: Who assumed control of the country after the coup d'etat?

answers: opposition parties
question: Who did Kuruma negotiate with?

answers: vice chief of staff
question: What was Kuruma's former position?

context: Guinea-Bissau is a republic. In the past, the government had been highly centralized. Multi-party governance was not established until mid-1991. The president is the head of state and the prime minister is the head of government. Since 1974, no president has successfully served a full five-year term.
qas: answers: Guinea-Bissau
question: What country is listed as a republic?

answers: In the past
question: When had the government been highly centralized?

answers: mid-1991
question: When was multi-party governance established?

answers: president
question: Who is the head of state?

answers: prime minister
question: Who is the head of government?

context: At the legislative level, a unicameral Assembleia Nacional Popular (National People's Assembly) is made up of 100 members. They are popularly elected from multi-member constituencies to serve a four-year term. The judicial system is headed by a Tribunal Supremo da Justiça (Supreme Court), made up of nine justices appointed by the president; they serve at the pleasure of the president.
qas: answers: 100
question: How many members compose the legislature?

answers: unicameral
question: Is the legislature bicameral or unicameral?

answers: four-year term
question: How long do members serve in the legislature?

answers: Tribunal Supremo da Justiça (Supreme Court)
question: What is the head of the judicial system?

answers: nine
question: How many justices are on the Supreme Court?

context: João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira was elected in 2005 as President of Guinea-Bissau as an independent, being declared winner of the second round by the CNE (Comité Nacional de Eleições). Vieira returned to power in 2005 six years after being ousted from office during a civil war. Previously, he held power for 19 years after taking power in 1980 in a bloodless coup. In that action, he toppled the government of Luís Cabral.
qas: answers: João Bernardo "Nino" Vieira
question: Who was elected as President in 2005?

answers: CNE (Comité Nacional de Eleições)
question: What body made the declaration of who won the presidency?

answers: six years
question: How long was it since Vieira had held the office of president?

answers: 1980
question: What year did Vieira first assume power?

answers: Luís Cabral
question: Whose government did Vieira topple in 1980?

context: He was killed on 2 March 2009, possibly by soldiers in retaliation for the assassination of General Batista Tagme Na Waie, the head of the joint chiefs of staff, killed in an explosion. Vieira's death did not trigger widespread violence, but there were signs of turmoil in the country, according to the advocacy group Swisspeace. Malam Bacai Sanhá was elected after a transition. In the 2009 election to replace the assassinated Vieira, Sanhá was the presidential candidate of the PAIGC while Kumba Ialá was the presidential candidate of the PRS.
qas: answers: widespread violence
question: What was NOT triggered by Vieira's death?

answers: 2 March 2009
question: When was Vieira killed?

answers: Sanhá
question: In the 2009 election, who was the candidate of the PAIGC?

answers: Kumba Ialá
question: In the 2009 election, who was the candidate of the PRS?

answers: Sanhá
question: Who won the 2009 election?

context: In 2012, President Rachide Sambu-balde Malam Bacai Sanhá died. He belonged to PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde), one of the two major political parties in Guinea-Bissau, along with the PRS (Party for Social Renewal). There are more than 20 minor parties.
qas: answers: 2012
question: When did President Sanha die?

answers: PAIGC (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde)
question: What party did Sanha belong to?

answers: PRS (Party for Social Renewal)
question: Besides the PAIGC, what is the other major political party?

answers: more than 20
question: How many minor political parties are there?

answers: President
question: What office did Sanha hold in 2012?

context: Guinea-Bissau is divided into eight regions (regiões) and one autonomous sector (sector autónomo). These, in turn, are subdivided into 37 Sectors. The regions are:
qas: answers: eight
question: How many regions does Guinea-Bissau contain?

answers: one
question: How many autonomous sectors does Guinea-Bissau contain?

answers: 37
question: How many subdivided Sectors does Guinea-Bissau contain?

context: Guinea-Bissau is bordered by Senegal to the north and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west. It lies mostly between latitudes 11° and 13°N (a small area is south of 11°), and longitudes 13° and 17°W.
qas: answers: Senegal
question: What country is on the north border of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Guinea
question: What country is on the south border of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Atlantic Ocean
question: What is to the west of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: 11° and 13°N
question: What latitudes does Guinea-Bissau mostly lie between?

answers: 13° and 17°W
question: What longitudes does Guinea-Bissau mostly lie between?

context: At 36,125 square kilometres (13,948 sq mi), the country is larger in size than Taiwan or Belgium. It lies at a low altitude; its highest point is 300 metres (984 ft). The terrain of is mostly low coastal plain with swamps of Guinean mangroves rising to Guinean forest-savanna mosaic in the east. Its monsoon-like rainy season alternates with periods of hot, dry harmattan winds blowing from the Sahara. The Bijagos Archipelago lies off of the mainland.
qas: answers: Taiwan or Belgium
question: Guinea-Bissau is larger than what two countries?

answers: 300 metres (984 ft)
question: How high is the highest point in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Bijagos
question: What archipelago lies off the mainland?

answers: 36,125
question: How many square kilometers is Guinea-Bissau?

answers: the Sahara
question: Where does Guinea-Bissau get its hot dry winds from?

context: Guinea-Bissau is warm all year around and there is little temperature fluctuation; it averages 26.3 °C (79.3 °F). The average rainfall for Bissau is 2,024 millimetres (79.7 in) although this is almost entirely accounted for during the rainy season which falls between June and September/October. From December through April, the country experiences drought.
qas: answers: 2,024
question: What is the average rainfall in Bissau, in millimetres?

answers: between June and September/October
question: When is the rainy season in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: drought
question: What does the country experience from December through April?

answers: all year around
question: When is Guinea-Bissau warm?

answers: 26.3 °C (79.3 °F)
question: What is the average temperature in Guinea-Bissau?

context: Guinea-Bissau's GDP per capita is one of the lowest in the world, and its Human Development Index is one of the lowest on earth. More than two-thirds of the population lives below the poverty line. The economy depends mainly on agriculture; fish, cashew nuts and ground nuts are its major exports.
qas: answers: More than two-thirds
question: How much of the population lives below the poverty line?

answers: fish, cashew nuts and ground nuts
question: What are Guinea-Bissau's major exports?

answers: GDP
question: What per capita index does Guinea-Bissau rank as one of the lowest in the world?

answers: Human Development Index
question: For what index does Guinea-Bissau rank as one of the lowest on earth?

answers: The economy
question: What area depends on agriculture in Guinea-Bissau?

context: A long period of political instability has resulted in depressed economic activity, deteriorating social conditions, and increased macroeconomic imbalances. It takes longer on average to register a new business in Guinea-Bissau (233 days or about 33 weeks) than in any other country in the world except Suriname. [The Economist, Pocket World in Figures, 2008 Edition, London: Profile Books]
qas: answers: depressed
question: Political instability has resulted in what type of economic activity?

answers: deteriorating
question: Political instability has resulted in what description of social conditions?

answers: macroeconomic
question: What type of imbalances have increased as a result of the instability?

answers: 233 days or about 33 weeks
question: How long does it take to register a business in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Suriname
question: What is the one country that takes longer than Guinea-Bissau to register a business?

context: Guinea-Bissau has started to show some economic advances after a pact of stability was signed by the main political parties of the country, leading to an IMF-backed structural reform program. The key challenges for the country in the period ahead are to achieve fiscal discipline, rebuild public administration, improve the economic climate for private investment, and promote economic diversification. After the country became independent from Portugal in 1974 due to the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution, the rapid exodus of the Portuguese civilian, military, and political authorities resulted in considerable damage to the country's economic infrastructure, social order, and standard of living.
qas: answers: a pact of stability
question: What did the main political parties sign to help the economy?

answers: IMF
question: What organization backed a structural reform program?

answers: 1974
question: When did Guinea-Bissau become independent?

answers: Portugal
question: What country left Guinea-Bissau in 1974?

answers: the Portuguese Colonial War and the Carnation Revolution
question: What happened in Portugal that contributed to Guinea-Bissau's independence?

context: After several years of economic downturn and political instability, in 1997, Guinea-Bissau entered the CFA franc monetary system, bringing about some internal monetary stability. The civil war that took place in 1998 and 1999, and a military coup in September 2003 again disrupted economic activity, leaving a substantial part of the economic and social infrastructure in ruins and intensifying the already widespread poverty. Following the parliamentary elections in March 2004 and presidential elections in July 2005, the country is trying to recover from the long period of instability, despite a still-fragile political situation.
qas: answers: 1997
question: In what year did Guinea-Bissau start to bring some internal monetary stability to the country?

answers: entered the CFA franc monetary system
question: What did the government do in 1997 to increase monetary stability?

answers: 1998 and 1999
question: What years did the civil war take place?

answers: September 2003
question: When was there a military coup in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: March 2004
question: When were parliamentary elections held?

context: Beginning around 2005, drug traffickers based in Latin America began to use Guinea-Bissau, along with several neighboring West African nations, as a transshipment point to Europe for cocaine. The nation was described by a United Nations official as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state". The government and the military have done little to stop drug trafficking, which increased after the 2012 coup d'état.
qas: answers: 2005
question: When did drug traffickers begin to use Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Latin America
question: Where did the drug traffickers come from?

answers: Europe
question: What was the final destination of the drugs going through Guinea-Bissau?

answers: a United Nations official
question: Who described Guinea-Bissau as being at risk for becoming a "narco-state"?

answers: The government and the military
question: Who has done little to stop drug trafficking in the country?

context: According to the 2010 revison of the UN World Population Prospects, Guinea-Bissau's population was 1,515,000 in 2010, compared to 518,000 in 1950. The proportion of the population below the age of 15 in 2010 was 41.3%, 55.4% were aged between 15 and 65 years of age, while 3.3% were aged 65 years or older.
qas: answers: 518,000
question: What was the population of Guinea-Bissau in 1950?

answers: 1,515,000
question: What was the population of Guinea-Bissau in 2010?

answers: the 2010 revison of the UN World Population Prospects
question: What is the source of the population data?

answers: 41.3%
question: What percentage of the population was below the age of 15?

answers: 3.3%
question: What percentage of the population was 65 or older?

context: Portuguese natives comprise a very small percentage of Guinea-Bissauans. After Guinea-Bissau gained independence, most of the Portuguese nationals left the country. The country has a tiny Chinese population. These include traders and merchants of mixed Portuguese and Chinese ancestry from Macau, a former Asian Portuguese colony.
qas: answers: Portuguese
question: What natives comprise a very small percentage of the population?

answers: Portuguese nationals
question: Who left the country after Guinea-Bissau gained independence?

answers: Chinese
question: What ethnic group has a tiny population in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Macau
question: What is the name of a former Asian Portuguese colony?

answers: mixed Portuguese and Chinese ancestry
question: What is the ancestry of the Chinese population in Guinea-Bissau?

context: 14% of the population speaks the official language Portuguese, the language of government and national communication during centuries of colonial rule. 44% speak Kriol, a Portuguese-based creole language, which is effectively a national language of communication among groups. The remainder speak a variety of native African languages unique to ethnicities.
qas: answers: 44%
question: What percentage of the population speaks Kriol?

answers: Portuguese
question: What is the official language of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: centuries
question: How long was Guinea-Bissau under colonial rule?

answers: a Portuguese-based creole language
question: What type of language is Kriol?

context: Most Portuguese and Mestiços speak one of the African languages and Kriol as second languages. French is also taught in schools because Guinea-Bissau is surrounded by French-speaking nations. Guinea-Bissau is a full member of the Francophonie.
qas: answers: Kriol
question: What is the second language for most Portuguese in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Guinea-Bissau is surrounded by French-speaking nations.
question: Why is French taught in school?

answers: the Francophonie
question: What is Guinea-Bissau a full member of?

answers: Most Portuguese and Mestiços
question: Who speaks both African languages and Kriol?

context: Throughout the 20th century, most Bissau-Guineans practiced some form of Animism. In the early 21st century, many have adopted Islam, which is now practiced by 50% of the country's population. Most of Guinea-Bissau's Muslims are of the Sunni denomination with approximately 2% belonging to the Ahmadiyya sect.
qas: answers: Animism.
question: In the 20th century most people practiced some form of what faith?

answers: Islam
question: What religion was adopted by the population in the early 21st century?

answers: 50%
question: What percentage of the population now practices Islam?

answers: Sunni
question: What denomination are the majority of Guinea-Bissau's muslims?

answers: Ahmadiyya
question: What sect does 2% of the population belong to?

context: Approximately 10% of the country's population belong to the Christian community, and 40% continue to hold Indigenous beliefs. These statistics can be misleading, however, as many residents practice syncretic forms of Islamic and Christian faiths, combining their practices with traditional African beliefs.
qas: answers: Approximately 10%
question: What percentage of the population is Christian?

answers: 40%
question: What percentage of the population continues to hold indigenous beliefs?

answers: syncretic
question: What forms of Islamic and Christian faiths do many residents practice?

answers: traditional African beliefs
question: What do many residents combine with Islamic and Christian practices?

context: The prevalence of HIV-infection among the adult population is 1.8%. Only 20% of infected pregnant women receive anti retroviral coverage to prevent transmission to newborns.
qas: answers: HIV
question: What infection has a very small prevalence in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: 1.8%
question: What percentage of the adult population has an HIV-infection?

answers: 20%
question: How many HIV-infected pregnant women receive retroviral coverage?

answers: transmission to newborns
question: What does retroviral coverage help prevent?

answers: infected pregnant women
question: Who receives retroviral coverage?

context: Malaria kills more residents; 9% of the population have reported infection, It causes three times as many deaths as AIDS. In 2008, fewer than half of children younger than five slept under antimalaria nets or had access to antimalarial drugs.
qas: answers: Malaria
question: What kills more residents than AIDS?

answers: 9%
question: What percentage of the population has Malaria?

answers: three times as many
question: How many more deaths does malaria cause vs. AIDS?

answers: fewer than half
question: How many children under five slept under antimalaria nets in 2008?

answers: antimalarial
question: What type of drugs did many young children not have access to in 2008?

context: Despite lowering rates in surrounding countries, cholera rates were reported in November 2012 to be on the rise, with 1,500 cases reported and nine deaths. A 2008 cholera epidemic in Guinea-Bissau affected 14,222 people and killed 225.
qas: answers: cholera
question: What type of disease was reported to be on the rise in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: nine
question: How many died from cholera in a November 2012 report?

answers: 225
question: How many died from cholera in a 2008 epidemic?

answers: surrounding countries
question: Where are there reported cholera rates that are lowering?

answers: 14,222
question: How many people were affected by the 2008 cholera epidemic?

context: The 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births for Guinea Bissau was 1000. This compares with 804.3 in 2008 and 966 in 1990. The under 5 mortality rate, per 1,000 births, was 195 and the neonatal mortality as a percentage of under 5's mortality was 24. The number of midwives per 1,000 live births was 3; one out of eighteen pregnant women die as a result of pregnancy. According to a 2013 UNICEF report, 50% of women in Guinea Bissau had undergone female genital mutilation. In 2010, Guinea Bissau had the 7th highest maternal mortality rate in the world.
qas: answers: 1000
question: What was the 2010 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births?

answers: 966
question: What was the 1990 maternal mortality rate per 100,000 births?

answers: 3
question: How many midwives are listed per 1,000 live births?

answers: one out of eighteen
question: How many pregnant women die as a result of pregnancy?

answers: 50%
question: According to UNICEF, what percentage of women in Guinea-Bissau had undergone female genital mutilation?

context: Education is compulsory from the age of 7 to 13. The enrollment of boys is higher than that of girls. In 1998, the gross primary enrollment rate was 53.5%, with higher enrollment ratio for males (67.7%) compared to females (40%).
qas: answers: 7 to 13
question: What are the ages when education is compulsory?

answers: boys
question: What gender has a higher enrollment?

answers: 53.5%
question: What was the gross primary enrollment rate in 1998?

answers: 67.7%
question: What was the gross primary enrollment rate for males?

answers: 40%
question: What was the gross primary enrollment rate for females?

context: Guinea-Bissau has several secondary schools (general as well as technical) and a number of universities, to which an institutionally autonomous Faculty of Law as well as a Faculty of Medicine have been added.
qas: answers: general as well as technical
question: What type of secondary schools does Guinea-Bissau have?

answers: universities
question: What institutions have added a Faculty of Law?

answers: universities
question: What institutions have added a Faculty of Medicine?

answers: institutionally autonomous
question: What two words are used to describe the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Medicine?

context: The music of Guinea-Bissau is usually associated with the polyrhythmic gumbe genre, the country's primary musical export. However, civil unrest and other factors have combined over the years to keep gumbe, and other genres, out of mainstream audiences, even in generally syncretist African countries.
qas: answers: gumbe
question: What music genre is usually associated with Guinea-Bissau?

answers: the polyrhythmic gumbe genre
question: What is considered the country's primary musical export?

answers: civil unrest
question: What major factor has kept gumbe out of mainstream audiences?

answers: generally syncretist African countries
question: What other type of countries has gumbe been kept out of?

context: The calabash is the primary musical instrument of Guinea-Bissau, and is used in extremely swift and rhythmically complex dance music. Lyrics are almost always in Guinea-Bissau Creole, a Portuguese-based creole language, and are often humorous and topical, revolving around current events and controversies, especially AIDS.
qas: answers: The calabash
question: What is the primary instrument of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: extremely swift and rhythmically complex dance music
question: What type of music is the calabash used in?

answers: Guinea-Bissau Creole
question: What language are lyrics typically sung in?

answers: current events and controversies
question: What do typical song lyrics revolve around?

answers: AIDS
question: What is the main controversy found in song lyrics?

context: The word gumbe is sometimes used generically, to refer to any music of the country, although it most specifically refers to a unique style that fuses about ten of the country's folk music traditions. Tina and tinga are other popular genres, while extent folk traditions include ceremonial music used in funerals, initiations and other rituals, as well as Balanta brosca and kussundé, Mandinga djambadon, and the kundere sound of the Bissagos Islands.
qas: answers: gumbe
question: What is sometimes used as a generic word for any music of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: about ten
question: Gumbe fuses how many of the country's folk music traditions?

answers: Tina and tinga
question: Other than gumbe, what are two popular music genres?

answers: kundere
question: What sound comes from the Bissagos Islands?

answers: folk
question: What type of tradition includes ceremonial music used in funerals?

context: Rice is a staple in the diet of residents near the coast and millet a staple in the interior. Fish, shellfish, fruits and vegetables are commonly eaten along with cereal grains, milk, curd and whey. The Portuguese encouraged peanut production. Vigna subterranea (Bambara groundnut) and Macrotyloma geocarpum (Hausa groundnut) are also grown. Black-eyed peas are also part of the diet. Palm oil is harvested.
qas: answers: Rice
question: What grain is a staple for residents near the coast of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: millet
question: What grain is a staple for residents in the interior of Guinea-Bissau?

answers: The Portuguese
question: Who encouraged peanut production in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Palm
question: What type of oil is harvested?

answers: Black-eyed peas
question: What kind of pea is part of the diet in Guinea-Bissau?

context: Common dishes include soups and stews. Common ingredients include yams, sweet potato, cassava, onion, tomato and plantain. Spices, peppers and chilis are used in cooking, including Aframomum melegueta seeds (Guinea pepper).
qas: answers: soups and stews
question: What are common dishes in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: yams, sweet potato, cassava, onion, tomato and plantain
question: What are common ingredients in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: cooking
question: What are spices, peppers and chilis used in?

answers: Aframomum melegueta seeds
question: What is another name for Guinea pepper?

answers: cooking
question: What are Guinea peppers used in?

context: Flora Gomes is an internationally renowned film director; his most famous film is Nha Fala (English: My Voice). Gomes's Mortu Nega (Death Denied) (1988) was the first fiction film and the second feature film ever made in Guinea-Bissau. (The first feature film was N’tturudu, by director Umban u’Kest in 1987.) At FESPACO 1989, Mortu Nega won the prestigious Oumarou Ganda Prize. Mortu Nega is in Creole with English subtitles. In 1992, Gomes directed Udju Azul di Yonta, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1992 Cannes Film Festival. Gomes has also served on the boards of many Africa-centric film festivals.
qas: answers: Flora Gomes
question: Who is an internationally renowned film director from Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Nha Fala (English: My Voice)
question: What is Flora Gomes' most famous film?

answers: 1987
question: What year was the first feature film made in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Umban u’Kest
question: Who directed the first feature film in Guinea-Bissau?

answers: Oumarou Ganda Prize
question: What prize did the film Mortu Nega win?