The Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau (CNE-GB; roughly ''National Scout Corps of Guinea-Bissau'') was the national

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organization of

Guinea-Bissau Guinea-Bissau ( ; pt, Guiné-Bissau; ff, italic=no, 𞤘𞤭𞤲𞤫 𞤄𞤭𞤧𞤢𞥄𞤱𞤮, Gine-Bisaawo, script=Adlm; Mandinka: ''Gine-Bisawo''), officially the Republic of Guinea-Bissau ( pt, República da Guiné-Bissau, links=no ) ...

. The co-educational association served about 1,500 members in 2007. It was a member of the

Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono The Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono (CEL, ''Community of Lusophone Scouting'') is the international community of Scouting organizations in the Lusophone countries. Its members are: * Angola: Associação de Escuteiros de Angola * Brazil: Uniã ...

(''Community of

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Scouting''). The national campsite is situated at Quinhámel. The CNE-GB was founded on November 25, 1966; after 1974 it was replaced by the Juventude Africano Amílcar Cabral. Scouting was one of several youth organizations made legal for free association by the

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. After fifteen months of preparation by a group of ten men and five women, seven of which were Scouts during the colonial period, and with an intensive orientation course by six Commissioners of the Corpo Nacional de Escutas de Portugal which took place in the parochial center between February 23 and February 27, 1993, the Bissau cathedral was the place of renovation of the CNE-GB for the first time after 27 years. In 2016, the CNE-GB merged with the

Organização dos Escuteiros da Guiné-Bissau The Scout and Guide movement in Guinea-Bissau is served by * Escuteiros da Guiné-Bissau, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement; originating from a merger of Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau and Organização dos Escuteir ...

, forming the

Escuteiros da Guiné-Bissau The Scout and Guide movement in Guinea-Bissau is served by * Escuteiros da Guiné-Bissau, member of the World Organization of the Scout Movement; originating from a merger of Corpo Nacional de Escutas da Guiné-Bissau and Organização dos Escutei ...

, which became a member of the

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in 2017.

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Non-aligned Scouting organizations Organisations based in Guinea-Bissau Youth organizations established in 1966 1966 establishments in Portuguese Guinea {{scout-stub