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	FRENCH GUINEA - LoveToKnow Article on FRENCH GUINEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		All other inhabitants of French Guinea are regarded as corn paratively late arrivals from the interior who have displaced thi aborigines.i Among the earliest of the new corners are the Baga the Nalu, the Landuman and the Timni, regarded as typical Negroer (q.v.).
		When driven from other parts of Guinea the slavers made this difficult and little known coast one of their last resorts, and many barracoons were built in the late years of the 18th century.
		French Guinea was made a colony independent of Senegal it 1891, but in 1895 came under the supreme authority of the newl) constituted governor-generalship of French West Africa.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /F/FR/FRENCH_GUINEA.htm (2193 words)

	Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Republic of Guinea (French: 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 gained her independence from France in 1958 and was governed by a dictatorship headed by Ahmed Sékou Touré.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guinea (696 words)

	Guinea, country, Africa. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		A humid and tropical country, Guinea comprises an alluvial coastal plain, the mountainous Fouta Djallon region, a savanna interior, and the forested Guinea Highlands, which rise to c.5,800 ft (1,770 m) in the Nimba Mts.
		French, British, and Portuguese traders were competing for slaves and by the 19th cent.
		Under Touré’s leadership, Guinea became the only colony to vote against the constitution of the French Community in 1958 and to opt for complete independence, which was achieved on Oct. 2, 1958.
	www.bartleby.com /65/gu/GuineaWAf.html (1131 words)

	Guinea: Afropop Country -- West Africa, wassoulou, griot music, African jazz
		Upper Guinea participated in a succession of powerful empires, Ghana and Mali early in the second millennium, and the Islamic states of Fouta Djallon and the Tukulor Empire in the 19th century.
		The French turned Guinea into one of their most lucrative colonies, establishing a head tax to force Guineans to farm peanuts, fruit and coffee, and to harvest rubber, an important resource for France up until the 1920s.
		Guinea's political and economic woes have undermined one of the richest and most exciting music scenes of the early post-colonial period.
	www.afropop.org /explore/country_info/ID/17/Guinea (973 words)

	A short history of Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In the 9th until the 13th century present-day Guinea is included in Ghana, followed by Mali until the 14th century and Songhai until the 17th century.
		In 1892 a seperate colony of French-Guinea is formed and French domination is assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Almamy Samory Touré, warlord and leader of Malinke descent, which gives France control of Guinea and adjacent areas.
		Guinea has a closed, socialized economy and no tolerance for human rights, free expression or political opposition, which is ruthlessly suppressed.
	www.electionworld.org /history/guinea.htm (416 words)

	Winne.com - Report on Guinea, From Rags to Riches
		French colonization of the area came later in the 1890s, subsequent to some trade and peace treaties signed with local chiefs.
		In 1891, Guinea was detached from Senegal and became "French Guinea", a subdivision of French West Africa.
		The immediate consequence of independence was the withdrawal by the French of all technical assistance and financial aid, and the diplomatic isolation of the new nation.
	www.winne.com /guinea2/bf03.html (2159 words)

	Guinea (10/05)
		Guinea is a constitutional republic in which effective power is concentrated in a strong presidency.
		Guinea's armed forces are divided into four branches--army, navy, air force, and gendarmerie--whose chiefs report to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Col. Kerfalla Camara.
		Guinea reestablished relations with France and Germany in 1975, and with neighboring Côte d'Ivoire and Senegal in 1978.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2824.htm (4129 words)

	Guinea Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing
		History: Modern Guinea was part of the Mali empire, which espoused Islam and dominated the region between the seventh and 15th centuries.
		In 1849, the French declared the Boke region a French protectorate.
		The division between the Guinea Republic and Guinea-Bissau dates from a Franco-Portuguese agreement of 1886, one of many concluded in West Africa to settle the competing claims of European colonialists.
	www.columbusguides.com /data/gin/gin580.asp (646 words)

	FACT SHEET: Republic of Guinea at a Glance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The area occupied by Guinea today was included in several large West African political groupings, including the Ghana, Mali and Songhai empires, at various times from the 10th to the 15th century, when the region came into contact with European commerce.
		Guinea's colonial period began with French military penetration into the area in the mid-19th century.
		French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Almamy Samory Touré, warlord and leader of Malinke descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.
	deploymentlink.osd.mil /deploy/info/africa/guinea/index.shtml (1205 words)

	Background Notes Archive - Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		HISTORY The rivers of Guinea and the islands of Cape Verde were among the first areas in Africa explored by the Portuguese in the 15th century.
		In 1630, a "captaincy-general" of Portuguese Guinea was established to administer the territory.
		The administrative capital was moved from Bolama to Bissau in 1941, and in 1952, by constitutional amendment, the colony of Portuguese Guinea became an overseas province of Portugal.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/af/guineabissau9404.html (2190 words)

	Foreign & Commonwealth Office Country Profiles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Guinea is situated on the West Coast of Africa.
		Guinea was the only country of the French African Empire to reject de Gaulle's proposal, and the country's historic “Non” led to it being abandoned by France who immediately cut all ties.
		Despite this Guinea remains attractive to international mining companies due to its extensive mineral resources, including 30% of the world's known bauxite reserves of very high grade ore. It is the world's largest exporter of bauxite.
	www.fco.gov.uk /servlet/Front?pagename=OpenMarket/Xcelerate/ShowPage&c=Page&cid=1007029394365&a=KCountryProfile&aid=1019744949880 (1746 words)

	FRENCH GUINEA - Encyclopedia Britannica - FRENCH GUINEA - JCSM's Study Center
		FRENCH GUINEA, a French colony in West Africa, formerly known as Rivieres du Sud.
		Those whose courses are entirely in French Guinea include the Cogon (or Componi), the Rio Nunez, the Fatalla (which reaches the sea through an estuary named Rio Pongo), the Konkure, whose estuary is named Rio Bramaya, the Forekaria and the Melakori.
		French Guinea was made a colony independent of Senegal in 1891, but in 1895 came under the supreme authority of the newly constituted
	jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/FRA_GAE/FRENCH_GUINEA.html (1567 words)

	GUINEA
		Neighboring countries are 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.
		Guinea has repeatedly made the top-10 list of the most underdeveloped countries in the world, due largely to its low literacy rate and short life expectancy.
		Guinea has experienced occasional civil unrest in Conakry, the capital, and in larger towns in all regions of the country.
	www.bjsvacations.com /packages/show_country.asp?countryid=GN (2314 words)

	Guinea: A historical Profile
		Most of Guinea is composed of savanna grasslands and orchard shrub with soils largely composed of silicates of aluminum hydrate, except along rivers and the tidal areas.
		Guinea’s estimated population of approximately seven million is composed of a variety of ethnic groups.
		In the Fouta Djalon of Middle Guinea the Pulaar (Peul) language is dominant, although minor indigenous ethnic groups like the Badyaranke, Bassari, Coniagui and Diakhante continue to maintain some of their traditional ways.
	www.sulima.com /pubs/guinea.htm (2509 words)

	History of GUINEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The break is emphasized by dropping the word French from the name of the new nation.
		He tells them, when campaigning for 'non' in the referendum on the French Community, that 'poverty in liberty' is preferable to 'wealth in slavery'.
		A turning point on the path towards internal repression is an invasion in 1971 from Portuguese Guinea (the neighbouring territory, still under colonial rule) by opponents attempting a coup with Portuguese support.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ad15 (581 words)

	Guinea
		Guinea has had ongoing difficulties with its neighbor Liberia, which was embroiled in a long civil war during the 1990s and again in 2000–2003.
		Guinea had taken sides against rebel leader Charles Taylor in Liberia's civil war and was part of the Nigerian-led ECOMOG forces that intervened in the crisis.
		Guinea, Gulf of - Guinea, Gulf of, large open arm of the Atlantic Ocean formed by the great bend of the coast of W...
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107600.html (867 words)

	Afrol Equatorial Guinea Index Page: Links to Equatorial Guinea
		AFP - Equatorial Guinea (French news agency) is probably the most regular provider of news from Equatorial Guinea, with several articles a week.
		Family Care Guinea Ecuatorial is a non-profit NGO aimed toward bettering the lives of the people in Guinea.
		Afrol Equatorial Guinea features a country page (with an introduction to all there is about the country on afrol), a country profile with text and statistics and a history of Equatorial Guinea.
	www.afrol.com /Index/countries/equatorialguineaindex.htm (2334 words)

	FRENCH GUINEA - Online Information article about FRENCH GUINEA
		Niger, the greater part of which is included in French Guinea.
		Communications.—The railway from Konakry to the Niger at Kurussa, by the route chosen a distance of 342 m., was begun in 1900, and from 1902 has been built directly by the colony.
		protection, the French thus effectually preventing the junction, behind the coast lands, of the British colonies of the Gambia and Sierra Leone.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /FRA_GAE/FRENCH_GUINEA.html (2074 words)

	French Colonial Empire - Introduction
		From its beginnings in the early 1600s through the great expansion of the late 19th century, the French overseas empire was formed more by the agencies and stimulation of the state, church, and armed forces than by the initiation of the business community.
		Foundations of a second French colonial empire were laid between 1830 and 1870, when Louis Philippe's forces penetrated Algeria and Napoleon III's seized Cochin China in Southeast Asia.
		French colonial imperialism survived World War I, but World War II led to its reorganization as the French Union, and finally to its dissolution — primarily as the result of the wars in Indochina and Algeria.
	www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/index.shtml (648 words)

	Guinea -> History on Encyclopedia.com 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wife beating and modernization: the case of Papua New Guinea.
		The Northeast coast of Papua New Guinea: a bibliographic survey.
		Warriors in formation for a stomp dance during a Sing Sing and pig killing festival in the New Guinea highlands.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/section/GuineaWAf_History.asp (1427 words)

	Economy of French Guiana : French Guinea/Economy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing and forestry are the most important economic activities.
		Cultivation of crops is limited to the coastal area, where the population is largely concentrated; rice and manioc are the major crops.
		French Guiana is heavily dependent on imports of food and energy.
	www.city-search.org /fr/french-guinea---economy.html (534 words)

	SIM Country Profile: Guinea
		Situated on the "bulge" of West Africa, Guinea is surrounded by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Mali, Côte d’Ivoire, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and the Atlantic Ocean.
		Guinea is partial heir to the series of West African empires that, in their height before the arrival of the Europeans, cast a great degree of political and commercial influence over many ethnic groups from Guinea's Atlantic coast to the southern edge of the Sahara.
		The French entered in the mid-nineteenth century, and with the defeat in 1898 of Samory Touré, gained control of Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire.
	www.sim.org /country.asp?CID=26&fun=1 (1819 words)

	French Guinea on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Racing: HAVE ONE ON INTOXICATING; 'Deficit was an unlucky loser in the Guineas, if he had been able to keep a straight path he'd have won.(Sport)
		From left to right the Frenchs saxophonist Louis SCLAVIS and bassist Henri TEXIER and the Italian drummer Aldo ROMANO.
		First plan from left to right the Italian drummer Aldo ROMANO and the French bassist Henri TEXIER.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-F1renchG1-nea.asp (509 words)

	French Colonies - Cameroon
		The Republic of Cameroon is an independent state in western Africa bordered by Nigeria to the northwest; Chad to the northeast; the Central African Republic to the east; Congo-Brazzaville, Equatorial Guinea, and Gabon to the south; and the Atlantic Ocean to the southwest (see map).
		French influence remains strong in independent Cameroon, especially in Yaoundé, the capital.
		The French zone became a sovereign state in 1960, and a year later the southern half of the British zone federated with it.
	www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Cameroon.shtml (1371 words)

	Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Coat of arms of Guinea and the Flag of the President
		Union of African States formed by Guinea, Ghana and Mali around 1960.
		National colours of Guinea are red, yellow and green.
	flagspot.net /flags/gn.html (422 words)

	French Colonies - Algeria
		Berber dialects are used by the Kabyle east of Algiers, the Shawia of the Aurès Mountains, the M'zabis (Mozabites) centered in the oasis city of Ghardaïa (see M'Zab Valley), and the Tuareg in the deep Sahara.
		French remains an important language, although English officially became the major foreign language taught in universities in 1996.
		Primary classes are taught in Arabic, but controversies over Arabization have kept French important in higher education, especially in vocational and technical training.
	www.discoverfrance.net /Colonies/Algeria.shtml (1109 words)

	Guinea
		Languages: French (official); Eight national languages, Soussou (Susu, in coastal Guinea), Peulh (Fulani, in Northrn Guinea), Maninka (Upper Guinea), Kissi (Kissidougou Region), Toma and Guerze (Kpelle) in rain forest Guinea; plus various ethnic groups with their own language.
		Guinea: The Switzerland of Africa is a Land of Contrasts
		A journey from the Gulf of Guinea on Africa's Atlantic Coast to historic Mali Ville in the northern highlands.
	www.nationsonline.org /oneworld/guinea.htm (682 words)

	AFRICA - Guinea Country Close-Up
		Touré went on to rule an independent Guinea until his death in 1984, driving more than one million Guineans abroad in the effort to escape famine, bungled attempts at collectivization and a brutal police state.
		The country is divided into a coastal plain, he north-western Fouta Djalon hill region, where the Niger River has its source, the northern lowlands and a forested area in the southeast.
		Guinea is bordered by Guinea-Bissau, Senegal, Liberia, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone
	www.pbs.org /wnet/africa/explore/rainforest/countries/guinea_print.html (306 words)

	[Trypanosoma cruzi in French Guinea: review of accumulated data since 1940] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Between 1939 and 1994, nine cases of Chagas disease have been reported in French Guiana: seven in the acute phase including two that were fatal and two in the chronic phase with cardiac sequellae.
		Further study is necessary to ascertain another mechanism involving R. prolixus as a vector in dwellings in urban areas.
		French Guiana should no longer be considered as an enzootic area but as an area of risk for sporadic Chagas disease with epidemiologic features similar to those of the disease in dense Amazon forest areas.
	www.aegis.com /aidsline/1996/nov/M96B1163.html (513 words)

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