Guinea

Capital: Conakry; GDP growth (annual %) 2016: 5.2%
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Key Facts

Ambassador :  Ibrahima Sory Sow, Ambassador

Full name: The Republic of Guinea
Population: 10.2 million (UN, 2011)
Area: 245,857 sq km (94,926 sq miles)
Major languages: French, Susu, Fulani, Mandingo
Major religions: Islam, Christianity, indigenous beliefs
Life expectancy: 53 years (men), 56 years (women) (UN)
Monetary unit: 1 Guinean franc = 100 centimes
Main exports: Bauxite, alumina, gold, diamonds, coffee, fish, agricultural products
GNI per capita: US $400 (World Bank, 2010)
Internet domain:
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International dialling code: +224
 
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    There has been a 20-fold increase in the number of global climate change laws since 1997, according to the most comprehensive database of relevant policy and legislation.

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  • Classroom at the rural primary school Ecole Keur Madaro near Thies, Senegal.

    2016/05/28

    Over the last 15 years, West African governments and the international community have been successful at expanding access to primary schooling and from presently on, a ground-breaking regional learning assessment has revealed that the quality of education has remained elusive. The majority of children surveyed were not acquiring the basic literacy and math skills that are crucial for building human capital in the region.

  • A retrospective on the first cases of the outbreak

    2015/03/31

    Ebola at 6 months

    On 26 December 2013, a 2-year-old boy in the remote Guinean village of Meliandou fell ill with a mysterious illness characterized by fever, black stools, and vomiting. He died 2 days later. Retrospective case-finding by WHO would later identify that child as West Africa’s first case of Ebola virus disease. The circumstances surrounding his illness were ominous.

  • Edoh Kossi Amenounve is chief executive of the Bourse Régionale des Valeurs Mobilières.

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    Francophone west Africa’s regional stock exchange, the BRVM, suffers from low turnover and a lack of listings. But its chief executive tells Paul Wallace he is determined to change that and bring about closer ties with Nigeria and Ghana’s stock markets.

  • Guinea looks to meet challenges of modernisation

    2013/10/05

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  • Africa: Making Things Happen at the Bank - 'Not a Talk Shop' - Akin Adesina

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    Dr. Akinwumi Adesina is focusing on five areas to achieve the African and world goals for a prosperous continent since becoming president of the African Development Bank - Africa's major public financial institution in September 2015. He was a keynote speaker at this month's Corporate Council on Africa's U.S.- Africa Business Summit in Washington D.C. and moderated a lively panel with five African government ministers. He as well received the Gene White Lifetime Succcess Award from the World Child Nutrition Foundation. This week, he was named the 2017 recipient of the World Food Prize, a prestigious honor that includes a $250,000 award. In an interview in Washington, DC, Adesina discussed the Development Bank's ambitious schedule and his vision for attracting the increase capital Africa needs. Posting questions for AllAfrica was Noluthando Crockett-Ntonga.

  • Aicha Bah Diallo, Guinean education

    2013/04/07

    Someone once wrote, “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation” and these words couldn’t be more true in Africa. Globally, it is estimated that seventy five million children do not have access to education, of which fifty million are girls.

  • Outlook for 2015-17

    2015/10/04
    The country (Guinea) is situated in Western Africa, contiguous the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Sierra Leone.
    It has borders with Ivory Coast for 610km, Guinea-Bissau for 386km, Liberia for 563km, Mali for 858km, Sierra Leone for 652km and Senegal for 330km.

    Land in Guinea is generally flat coastal plain, hilly to mountainous interior.The climate is generally hot and humid; monsoonal-type rainy season (June to November) with southwesterly winds; dry season (December to May) with northeasterly harmattan winds.

    Economic Review

    Increase in Guinea’s gross domestic product (GDP) shrank from 2.3% in 2013 to a miserly 0.6% in 2014 due to the consequences of the Ebola epidemic, delays in the implementation of structural reforms and electricity shortages. Assuming that the epidemic is brought under control in the initial six months of 2015, increase should reach 0.9% in 2015 and 4.3% in 2016 thanks to increased public investment , increased mining and a better electricity supply.