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	Adventure Trips visiting West Africa \| 4 Corners Club
		The northern section of West Africa is composed of semi-arid terrain known as Sahel, a transitional zone between the Sahara desert and the savannahs of the western Sudan to the south.
		In the tenth century, however, Islam was steadily growing in the region, and in 1052 the Almoravids launched a jihad against the empire, sacking Kumbi Saleh.
		European traders first became a force in the region in the fifteenth century, with the 1445 establishment of a Portuguese trading post at Arguin Island, off the coast of present-day Senegal; by 1475, Portuguese traders had reached as far as the Bight of Benin.
	www.4cornersclub.com /adventure_trips/africa/west_africa/region_facts (2102 words)

	West Africa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		West Africa or Western Africa is the westernmost region of the African continent.
		The northern section of West Africa is composed of semi-arid terrain known as Sahel, a transitional zone between the Sahara desert and the savannahs of the western Sudan to the south.
		Islam is the predominant religion of West Africa, with Christianity being the predominant religion in coastal regions of Nigeria, Ghana, and Cote d'Ivoire and elements of indigenous religions (see Voodoo) being practised throughout.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/West_Africa (1419 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Mali Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The empire was founded by the king Sundiata Keita, and was famous for the generosity and wealth of one of his successors, Mansa Kankan Musa I, and for the fabled wealth of the city of Timbuktu.
		Mansa Musa depicted holding a gold nugget from a 1395 map of North Africa and Europe Mansa Kankan Musa I or Mansa Musa or The Lion of Mali was a 14th century king of the Mali Empire.
		Sundiata's grandnephew, Mansa Kankan Musa I or Musa I, ruled over the Mali Empire while it was the source of almost half the Old World's gold.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mali-Empire (2232 words)

	Kankan - MSN Encarta
		Kankan, city, eastern Guinea, capital of Kankan Region, on the Milo River.
		The city, a trade center for cattle, sheep, rice, rubber, corn, potatoes, and yams, also has brick and soap industries.
		Kankan was occupied by the French in 1891.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761572237/Kankan.html (99 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Kankan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kankan was probably founded in the 18th cent.
		The W African Muslim leader Samori Touré began (c.1866) his career as a military head and empire builder in the Kankan district and in 1873 took Kankan itself.
		Kankan has a polytechnic institute, a center for research on rice cultivation, a teacher-training school, and the national police school.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/K/Kankan.asp (351 words)

	Kankan Region Map: Dabola — Siguiri \| Guinea Google Satellite Maps
		Browse the list of administrative regions below and follow the navigation through secondary administrative regions to find populated place you are interested in.
		Regions are sorted in alphabetical order from level 1 to level 2 and eventually up to level 3 regions.
		If you would like to recommend this Kankan map page to a friend, or if you just want to send yourself a reminder, here is the easy way to do it.
	www.maplandia.com /guinea/kankan (613 words)

	Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This empire exceeded its predecessors in territory and wealth, but it too fell prey to internal wrangling and civil war and was eventually toppled at the Battle of Tondibi in 1591.
		Guinea is divided into 7 administrative regions and subdivided into 33 prefectures.
		Swimming is popular near the capital, Conakry, and hiking is possible in the Fouta Djallon region.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guinea (988 words)

	Cultural Context for Djembé Rhythms
		In some regions this dance is practiced more "peaceably".
		regions and is used for cultivation rather than circumcision.
		It is a rhythm danced in full moonlight by young girls out of respect for their mothers.
	home.acceleration.net /clark/PaperVu/context.htm (3057 words)

	Kankan, Guinea, Pictures
		Kankan, city, eastern Guinea, capital of Kankan Region, on the Milo River.
		The city, a trade center for cattle, sheep, rice, rubber, corn, potatoes, and yams, also has brick and soap industries.
		Kankan was occupied by the French in 1891.
	www.greatestcities.com /Africa/Guinea/Kankan_city.html (126 words)

	Ethnologue 14 report for language code:MNI
		Central, Kankan Region, all over upper Guinea, and the forest region near Liberia.
		Wasulu is a dialect of Kankan Maninka in Guinea, but of Bambara in Mali.
		Kankan variety has 92% lexical similarity with Wasulu, 79% with Sankaran, 72% with Konyanka.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=MNI (187 words)

	Guinee Conakry travel guide
		The North of Guinee and especially the region known as Fouta Djalon offers great hiking possibilities.
		Faranah and Kankan are the biggest city in the north-east.
		If you are travelling to Mali you will probably be making a stop in both.
	www.world66.com /africa/guineeconakry (200 words)

	The Annotated Ramsar List: Guinea
		A semi-arid region at the border with Senegal, comprising the floodplain of the Koulountou River, the Gambia River's main tributary, and a number of smaller, often temporary watercourses and ponds.
		The basin of the Sankarani river west of the country's frontiers with Mali and Côte d'Ivoire, characterized by savannah and dry forest and enormous floodplains along the length of the river.
		The area is the most productive of fish in the region, especially important as a spawning ground because of its calm and deep currents protected by gallery forests - the taste of the fish of the river Fié is said to be particularly prized by connoisseurs.
	www.ramsar.org /profile/profiles_guinea.htm (1555 words)

	Feature Article of Sunday, 28 December 2003
		This is not surprising in a region that leads the rest of Africa in political instability, coups, civil wars and political paralysis.
		Still, to open up the influence of West Africa’s juju, marabou and other spiritualists’ impact on the regions rebels’ activities, armed robbery and coup detat for policy debate, let there be a study in the area in relation to the region’s stability.
		As the most juju/marabou and witchcraft region in Africa, West Africa has such places like Kankan (Guinea) and Porto Novo (Benin Republic) (other top places are in Senegal) as the centres of marabous and juju where affairs of the region are determined to the detriment of rational choices.
	www.ghanaweb.com /GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=48940 (2457 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Marco Polo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		September 15 is the 258th day of the year (259th in leap years).
		Map of Croatia with Dalmatia highlighted Dalmatia is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea, in modern Croatia, spreading between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Gulf of Kotor (Boka Kotorska) in the southeast.
		Venice (Italian: Venezia, Venetian: Venexia), nicknamed the city of canals, is the capital of the region of Veneto and of the province of Venice in Italy.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Marco_Polo (729 words)

	OCHA On-Line: Guinea - Earlier Updates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With heavy rains rendering the Kankan - Beyla and the Banankoro - Kerouane roads impassable for all vehicles, Nzerekoré is currently not accesible by road.
		The mission is due to arrive in Conakry on Wednesday 25 June, carry out a field trip to Nzérékoré on Thursday 26 June, and meet with representatives of the Government, Donors, NGOs and the UN Country Team in Conakry on Friday 27 June.
		The Field Review was recommended at the regional humanitarian meeting convened in Abidjan on 28 April 2003 by the UN Humanitarian Envoy Ms.
	ochaonline.un.org /webpage.asp?Page=747 (5762 words)

	TDS; Passports, Visas, Travel Documents
		The country is divided into four geographic regions: A narrow coastal belt (Lower Guinea); the pastoral Fouta Djallon highlands (Middle Guinea); the northern savannah (Upper Guinea); and a southeastern rain-forest region (Forest Guinea).
		The coastal region of Guinea and most of the inland have a tropical climate, with a rainy season lasting from April to November, relatively high and uniform temperatures, and high humidity.
		The country's four geographic regions include a narrow coastal belt; pastoral highlands (the source of West Africa's major rivers); the northern savanna; and the southeastern rain forest.
	www.traveldocs.com /gn/geog.htm (201 words)

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		Environment - current issues: deforestation; inadequate supplies of potable water; desertification; soil contamination and erosion; overfishing, overpopulation in forest region; poor mining practices have led to environmental damage
		Environment - international agreements: party to: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Ozone Layer Protection, Wetlands, Whaling; signed, but not ratified: none of the selected agreements
		Legal system: based on French civil law system, customary law, and decree; legal codes currently being revised; has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
	www.propertymanagementbulgaria.com /en/world_information_locations_continent/africa/Guinea.html (1138 words)

	USAID Guinea : News Stories for Entire Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Young people in the Forest Region of Guinea are actively involved in reforestation and fire prevention activities.
		Parents are making a difference in the quality of their children's education in the Mamou region.
		Guinea is surrounded by regional tension, and conflict prevention and mitigation is of key importance.
	www.usaid.gov /gn/mission/news/index.htm (1842 words)

	CCP: Press Room
		KANKAN, Guinea — A girls' soccer program in Upper Guinea promoting prevention of HIV/AIDS and unwanted pregnancies proved so successful that UNICEF and the country's Ministry of Youth decided to replicate the program for young adults in Middle Guinea.
		The soccer program was developed by the PRISM project as part of its strategy to reach youth with messages designed to prevent HIV/AIDS, sexually transmitted infections (STI), and unwanted pregnancies.
		PRISM supported two teams — the Sankaran Football Club of Faranah and the Hirondelles of Kankan — during the tournament held April 2 to April 10.
	www.jhuccp.org /pressroom/2005/04-21.shtml (375 words)

	About Conferences
		These conferences focus on creating gender awareness and serve to encourage the education of young girls in a country where girls only make up 7% of the secondary school population and where only 27% of women in Guinea are functionally literate (compared to 55% of men).
		The Peace Corps' Regional Girls' and Boys' Conferences have become very well known throughout Guinea, and the young Guinean girls and boys are already eagerly anticipating next year's event.
		It is certainly one of the most immediately rewarding: 30-40 girls from volunteer villages all are selected for their motivation, self-expression skills, and academic acheivement and brought in to the regional capital to attend a 3-4 day conference covering a range of topics.
	www.friendsofguinea.org /conferences_about.shtml (2416 words)

	08/28/01 -- Surinamese mining companies and once-displaced villagers vie for land rights
		Their demand for better economic conditions has coincided with the fading traditions of Maroons, whose ancestors escaped from sugar plantations and formed African-centered societies deep in the forests.
		For centuries, they carved canoe paddles, decorated calabash bowls and left offerings at towering kankan trees, which they believed embodied the spirits of the dead.
		Now the Maroon arts are fading, and many villagers have abandoned the kankan trees for churches.
	www.forests.org /archive/samerica/sumincom.htm (962 words)

	afrol News - Ivorian refugees pour into Guinea
		According to reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) today, local Guinean authorities had stated their "inability to finance" onward travels for the group of refugees stranded at the border.
		People fleeing Côte d'Ivoire were also continuing to arrive in the eastern Kankan region of Guinea, close to the Ivorian and Malian border.
		As of 27 January, 640 people, mostly Guineans, had arrived in the region since late September, the latest WFP figures showed.
	www.afrol.com /News2003/gui002_refugees_cv.htm (517 words)

	ReliefWeb » Document Preview » IOM press briefing notes 03 Jan 2003: Côte d'Ivoire, Tajikistan
		An IOM convoy transporting 393 nationals of Burkina Faso arrived safely in Bobo Dioulasso on 1 January 2003, after a six-day bus journey across eastern Guinea and southern Mali.
		The five-bus convoy left the town of Lola on 27 December and travelled through Kankan and Siguiri, before crossing into Mali at Kourémalé.
		The IOM convoy, which left Lola on 28 December, travelled through the towns of Kankan and Siguiri before crossing into Mali at the Kourémalé border crossing.
	www.reliefweb.int /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/JMAN-5YXBUU?OpenDocument (584 words)

	MSF-USA: Field News 2/21/2003 - Yellow Fever in Guinea: 500,000 Vaccinated
		The camp shelters nearly 34,000 Liberians from the Lofa region, where intense fighting between government forces and rebels has rendered the area inaccessible to humanitarian aid.
		In December 2000, nearly 500 cases were recorded in the northern areas of Mamou, Labbé and Kankan.
		At the time, MSF took part in a massive vaccination campaign that provided protection for more than one million people, but the lack of profitability led manufacturers to produce far fewer vaccines than were needed.
	www.doctorswithoutborders.org /news/2003/02-21-2003.cfm (401 words)

	Select newsbriefs from around Africa
		This year, there had been minor flooding in mid-August in Lower Shabelle Region, and this was "symptomatic of the level of disrepair that river embankments, sluice gates and dikes are in", the report said.
		Amathila informed cabinet that investigations revealed that the malaria crisis was caused by inadequate funding, poor vector control measures and poor epidemic preparedness and response.
		The floods have been caused by heavy rains which began in May. The affected areas are in the capital, Bamako, the northern region of Kidal, Koulikoro and Mopti in the centre and Sikasso in the south, OCHA reported in a situation report.
	www.scienceinafrica.co.za /2001/november/news.htm (2886 words)

	Guinea Travel Guide and Bicycle Touring Guide
		The road from Kissidougou to Kankan was once paved.
		Moyenne Guinea (Futa Jalon) features large hills, mountains and flatter high plains, mile after mile of beautiful vistas and a cooler climate than the rest of the country.
		The region has the beauty of the Sahel and some of the towns are very interesting.
	www.ibike.org /africaguide/guinea.htm (837 words)

	Ethnologue report for Guinea
		Coast east of the Nunez River in Boké Region.
		Southern bank of the Nunez River in the Boké and Boffa regions.
		Baga Marara is spoken on Marara islands south of the Rio Pongo Inlet.
	www.ethnologue.org /show_country.asp?name=Guinea (1062 words)

	Afropop Worldwide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		He used to be a government official in most of the regions.
		And of course, after our first trip, Diabate took me and he says, "Sekou Toure is very much interested in what we're doing and he wants to help." So he gave his little plane, his aeroplane, private plane.
		He said, "Any time you want to go to a region, my plane is there." With a Russian pilot.
	www.afropop.org /multi/feature/ID/328/The%20Story%20of%20Bembeya%20Jazz (1720 words)

	SILESR 2003-016 Summary
		The SRT was prepared in Kankan during the month of August 1998.
		It was also taken to some of the major centers of the Maninka territory to test if the Maninka across Upper Guinea are proficient enough in the Kankan dialect to use the materials developed by the Society for International Ministries (SIM) in their language program centered in Kankan.
		In this survey it was decided that a RPE level of 4 would demonstrate they could use the Kankan materials while an RPE level of 3 or less would reveal that a another language program would need to be considered for them.
	www.sil.org /silesr/abstract.asp?ref=2003-016 (384 words)

	KWESI SELASSIE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Kwesi Selassie, also known as “The Lion of Africa” was born in Sekondi Takoradi, the capital city of the Western Region of Ghana in West Africa.
		Although he was born and raised in Takoradi, he hails from Agona Nsaba, in the central region of Ghana, the hometown of both his parents.
		One of the most remembered performances was in Nzerekore Guinea, West Africa, in honor of the President, Lansana Conte for a traditional Ceremonial event.
	www.kwesiselassie.com /bio.html (753 words)

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