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  Guinea
The Republic of Guinea is a nation of northwest Africa.
Guinea possesses major mineral, hydropower, and agricultural resources, yet remains a poor underdeveloped nation.
A guinea was an English coin, see guinea coin.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gu/Guinea.html   (210 words)

  
 Guinea - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Guinea gained her independence from France in 1958 and was governed by a dictatorship headed by Ahmed Sékou Touré.
Guinea is divided into 7 administrative regions and subdivided into 33 prefectures.
Guinea's main sport is soccer and although they have never made the World Cup Finals they have appeared at eight African Nations Cup finals; being runners up in 1976 and making the quarter finals in both 2004 and 2006.
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Guinea   (1030 words)

  
 Guinea - the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée) is a nation in northwest Africa.
It borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal on the north, Mali on the north and north-east,the Ivory Coast on the south-east, Liberia on the south, and Sierra Leone on the west.
Guinea is divided into 33 prefectures and one special zone (the capital,Conakry).
www.encyclopedia-of-knowledge.com /?t=Gn   (430 words)

  
 Guinea - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It borders Guinea-Bissau and Senegal on the north, Mali on the north and north-east, the Ivory Coast on the south-east, Liberia on the south, and Sierra Leone on the west.
Fulani Muslims migrated to Foutah Djallon in Central Guinea and established an Islamic state from 1735 to 1898 with a written Constitution and alternate rulers.
Guinea is divided into 33 prefectures and one special zone (the capital, Conakry).
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Guinea   (630 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The term "New Guinea" was applied to the island in 1545 by a Spaniard, Ynigo Ortis de Retez, because of a fancied resemblance between the islands' inhabitants and those found on the African Guinea coast.
New Guinea is part of the humid tropics, and many Indomalayan rainforest plants spread across the narrow straits from Asia, mixing together with the old Australian and Antarctic floras.
The churches with the largest number of members are the Roman Catholic Church (with 30% of the population), the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea, the United Church of Papua New Guinea, and the Seventh-day Adventists.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Papua_New_Guinea   (5464 words)

  
 Demographics of Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Demographics of Guinea includes four main ethnic groups.
Called Peuhl or Peul (fr:Peul) in French, Fula or Fulani in English, who are chiefly found in the mountainous region of Fouta Djallon;
Soussou is a lingua franca in Guinea, and is commonly spoken in the coastal areas including the capital Conakry; and
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demographics_of_Guinea   (318 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It is bordered by Senegal to the north, and Guinea to the south and east, with the Atlantic Ocean to its west.
Formerly the Portuguese colony of Portuguese Guinea, upon independence, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's official name in order to prevent confusion between itself and the Republic of Guinea.
Though the rivers and coast of this area were among the first places colonized by the Portuguese, who began the slave trade (as we know it) in the 17th century, the interior was not explored until the 19th century.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guinea-Bissau   (1020 words)

  
 Equatorial Guinea
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a nation in central Africa, and one of the smallest countries in continental Africa.
It borders Cameroon on the north, Gabon on the south and east, and the Gulf of Guinea on the west, where the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe lie to its southwest.
Formerly the Spanish colony of Spanish Guinea, the country's territory (continentally known as Río Muni) includes a number of islands, including the sizable island of Bioko where the capital, Malabo (formerly Santa Isabel), is located.
creekin.net /n60-equatorial-guinea.html   (1234 words)

  
 Guinea - Atlapedia Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
It is bound by Guinea-Bissau to the northwest, Senegal and Mali to the north, the Ivory Coast to the east, Sierra Leone and Liberia to the south and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest.
CLIMATE: Guinea has a tropical climate with two seasons, the wet season from April/May to October/November with the heaviest rainfall occurring in July and August while the dry season is from November to April.
Guinea's first constitution took effect on November 12 which was amended in December and made Toure's Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG) the country's only political party.
www.atlapedia.com /online/countries/guinea.htm   (1136 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau
The small country, a former Portuguese colony, is bounded on the north by Senegal, to the south and east by Guinea, and to the west by the Atlantic Ocean.
In January 2005 the government announced that a locust swarm was threatening this vital crop, and that the country did not have the resources to tackle the infestation.
Main article: Demographics of Guinea-Bissau The population of Guinea-Bissau is ethnically diverse with distinct languages, customs, and social structures, the main spoken languages is Portuguese creole (44%); Portuguese language is spoken by 14%.
guinea-bissau.search.ipupdater.com   (617 words)

  
 Guinea - The real meaning from Timesharetalk wikipedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a nation in West Africa.
The highest point in Guinea is Mont Nimba at 5,748 feet (1,752 m).
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www.timesharetalk.co.uk /wiki.asp?k=Guinea   (971 words)

  
 Guinea fowl production by indigenous farmers in Zimbabwe
Guinea fowl production provides one of the best alternatives for the rural populace to access meat and eggs as well as potential for revenue generation through sales of live fowl and/or eggs.
The mean hatchability of guinea fowl eggs incubated naturally (71%) was higher than that reported by Nwagu and Alawa (1995) and Saina et al (2003a) of 67% and 65%, respectively and was found to lie within the ranges reported by Galor (1983) and Binali and Kanengoni (1998).
Adult birds were lost due to poisoning, predators (snakes, dogs, wild cats), fighting, theft and floods while in keets mite infestations, malnutrition, cold and scotching heat, predators (snakes, dogs, wild cats and predatory birds), floods and physical injuries were the main causes of death.
www.cipav.org.co /lrrd/lrrd17/9/sain17101.htm   (3006 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
The Independent State of Papua New Guinea (informally, Papua New Guinea or PNG) is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and numerous offshore islands (the western portion of the island is occupied by the Indonesian provinces of Papua and West Irian Jaya).
Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth of Nations and Queen Elizabeth II is the head of state.
Papua New Guinea is richly endowed with natural resources, but exploitation has been hampered by rugged terrain, the high cost of developing infrastructure, serious law and order problems and the system of land title which makes identifying the owners of land for the purpose of negotiating appropriate agreements problematic.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Papua_New_Guinea   (3127 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea Article, PapuaNewGuinea Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the easternhalf of the island of New Guinea (the other half is the Papua province of Indonesia).
Papua New Guinea is a member of the Commonwealth and Queen Elizabeth II is thehead of state.
New Guinea is part of the humid tropics, and many Indomalayan rainforest plants spread across the narrow straits from Asia, mixing together with the oldAustralian and Antarctic floras.
www.anoca.org /islands/forests/papua_new_guinea.html   (983 words)

  
 Guinea - QuickSeek Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Europeans first came to the area as part of the slave trade, beginning in the 16th century.
Guinea is divided into 8 administrative regions which are further subdivided into 33 prefectures.
The highest point in Guinea is Mont Nimba.
guinea.quickseek.com   (779 words)

  
 LME28: Guinea Current
Guinea Current Project is the largest one in Africa aimed at increasing socioeconomic benefits.
In the Gulf of Guinea Project, 6 countries, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria and Cameroon, sought to strengthen regional institutional capacities to prevent and remedy pollution of the LME and the associated degradation of critical habitats.
Guinea Current LME Project brought in 10 neighboring countries (Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Sao Tome and Principe, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo Brazzaville, Congo-Kinshasa and Angola).
na.nefsc.noaa.gov /lme/text/lme28.htm   (3261 words)

  
 Equatorial Guinea - Gurupedia
The Republic of Equatorial Guinea is a nation of Central Africa.
It borders on Cameroon, Gabon, and the Gulf of Guinea.
The 1982 constitution of Equatorial Guinea gives the President extensive powers, including naming and dismissing members of the cabinet, making laws by decree, dissolving the Chamber of Representatives, negotiating and ratifying treaties and calling legislative elections.
www.gurupedia.com /e/eq/equatorial_guinea.htm   (669 words)

  
 The International Encyclopedia of Sexuality: Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG) occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, the world’s second-largest island, in the southwest Pacific Ocean, north of eastern Australia’s Captain Cook Peninsula.
New Guinea, the world’s second-largest island, was settled many thousands of years ago by waves of Papuans and Melanesian migrants.
The societies of Papua New Guinea are male-dominated and the attitudes of men toward women, on the whole, are poor.
www2.hu-berlin.de /sexology/IES/papuanewguinea.html   (1790 words)

  
 Demographics of Guinea: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Fouta djallon is a highland region in guinea, west africa....
Conakry (also konakry, malinké knakiri), population 2,000,000 (2002), is the capital of guinea....
over the years Guinea has received several hundred thousand refugees from the civil wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone; by the end of 1999 all Liberian refugees were assumed to have returned; refugees from Sierra Leone are assumed to be returning
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/d/de/demographics_of_guinea.htm   (436 words)

  
 TradePort Country Profiles from World Trade Press
French is the official language of Guinea, but each tribe has its own language.
Guinea's overall adult literacy is around 35.9 percent.
Note: as a result of civil war in neighboring countries, Guinea is host to approximately 150,000 Liberian and Sierra Leonean refugees.
www.tradeport.org /countries/guinea/01grw.html   (575 words)

  
 Guinea Deforestation Rates and Related Forestry Figures
In total, between 1990 and 2005, Guinea lost 9.2% of its forest cover, or around 684,000 hectares.
Biodiversity and Protected Areas: Guinea has some 998 known species of amphibians, birds, mammals and reptiles according to figures from the World Conservation Monitoring Centre.
Guinea is home to at least 3000 species of vascular plants, of which 2.9% are endemic.
rainforests.mongabay.com /deforestation/2000/Guinea.htm   (778 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea - Gurupedia
Papua New Guinea is a country in Oceania, occupying the eastern half of the island of New Guinea (the other half is the Papua province of
Papua New Guinea is part of the Australasia ecozone, which also includes Australia, New Zealand, eastern Indonesia, and several Pacific island groups, including the Solomon Islands and
Bougainville, the Admiralty Islands, the Trobriand Islands, and the Louisiade Archipelago, were never linked to New Guinea by land bridges, and they lack many of the land mammals and flightless birds that are common to New Guinea and Australia.
www.gurupedia.com /p/pa/papua_new_guinea.htm   (963 words)

  
 Business America: Guinea's new policy direction provides business opportunities
Guinea enjoys abundant land with generally fertile soil and adequate rainfall, and is blessed with mineral resources, particularly bauxite, diamonds, gold, iron ore, and uranium.
Poorly developed by the French colonial authorities, who favored Ivory Coast and Senegal, independent Guinea languished from 1958 until 1984 under a feudalistic state socialist regime which collectivized agriculture and stifled private initiative in commerce and industry.
With the assistance of the West and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Guinea launched a sustained economic reform program aimed at progressive liberalization of the economy and modernization led by private sector growth.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1052/is_v10/ai_4700943   (366 words)

  
 Skating on Thin Ice
With all these demographics working in Hinn’s favor, it is no wonder he was able to pull in 300,000 people for the meeting.
A letter from Crouch to New Guinea’s Prime Minister apparently tried to capitalize upon what appeared to be Hinn’s influence with the chief political leader of the country.
Because of the Skate debacle in New Guinea, the constant lying, the promotion of an outdated, defunct theory as “revelation,” contradictory conversion stories and the promotion of occultism (and now denial of the book, not repentance), Benny Hinn’s world is not only confusing but it is a disastrous world as well.
www.pfo.org /thin-ice.htm   (6913 words)

  
 Share and Discover Guinea Bio, Pictures, News at BlinkBits.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Things are going well in the hottest part of the hottest part of Guinea, although my health has had some major threats recently.
Extremists were jailed last week for a vicious campaign against a family breeding guinea pigs....
Guinea Pig Supply Depot - Cages & Habitat Sup...
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/guinea   (1206 words)

  
 Papua New Guinea(png\pnghome.html)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
This survey was carried out as part of a World Bank Poverty Assessment by John Gibson of the University of Waikato.
The unit of observation for the demographics, education, income sources, anthropometrics and health sections of the survey is the individual; and for food consumption, housing conditions, agricultural assets, and household food stocks the unit of observation is the household.
If your browser doesn't support forms (or fails to forward you to the data page upon completing the form), contact LSMS and you will receive instructions on how to progress to the page with the data files.
www.worldbank.org /lsms/country/png/pnghome.html   (285 words)

  
 21st Century Demographics: Highs and Lows by Joseph Chamie - The Globalist > > Global Development
While the future by definition remains uncertain, Joseph Chamie — former director of the UN Population Division — provides some insights into trends that will shape our world in the decades to come.
It is estimated that about one-third of the university graduates from Uganda, Tanzania and Kenya are currently living abroad.
In addition to playing an increasingly important demographic role in the 21st century, the increased numbers and flows of migrants will also have significant social, economic, political and cultural consequences.
www.theglobalist.com /StoryId.aspx?StoryId=4629   (1309 words)

  
 Demographics
This may be explained by a combination of factors related to declining fertility levels, the return of large numbers of refugees to their countries in the recent past and the migration of youth out of the country over the years.
With peace attained in conflict areas like Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea Bissau and Southern Senegal (Cassamance), many refugees from these countries have either returned home or have been resettled in Europe and the Americas.
Although fertility levels in The Gambia remain amongst the highest in the world, recent estimates from the 2003 census indicate declining fertility.
www.csd.gm /demographics.htm   (496 words)

  
 Guinea-Bissau: Encyclopedia topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
A rebellion beginning in 1956 by the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde: more facts about this subject) (PAIGC) consolidated its hold on the country by 1973.
In January 2005 the government announced that a locust (locust: Migratory grasshoppers of warm regions having short antennae) swarm (swarm: A group of many insects) was threatening this vital crop, and that the country did not have the resources to tackle the infestation.
The population of Guinea-Bissau (Guinea-Bissau: A republic on the northwestern coast of Africa; recognized as independent by Portugal in 1974) is ethnically diverse with distinct languages, customs, and social structures.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/guinea-bissau   (1369 words)

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