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  Guinea - Gurupedia
The Republic of Guinea is a nation of northwest Africa.
Guinea possesses major mineral, hydropower, and agricultural resources, yet remains a poor underdeveloped nation.
Guinea possesses over 25% of the world's bauxite reserves and is the second largest bauxite producer.
www.gurupedia.com /g/gu/guinea.htm   (209 words)

  
 Guinea NICS/RNIS Acticles
An evaluation of food security in Guinea showed that the situation in Forest Guinea, where the majority of the refugees are settled, although not critical, needs to be monitored carefully because of potential risks connected to the security situation in border areas and influx of populations (ACH-S, 07/03).
According to different estimates, Gueckedou prefecture was hosting 150,000 to 260,000 refugees, before an outbreak of violence which occurred from September 2000 to March 2001 (see RNIS 32/33) and led to the displacement of both refugees and host populations.
Guinea’s population of 7 million is reported to be becoming increasingly unhappy with the refugee situation as what little aid that does come to the country is targeted directly at the refugees instead of being split with the local population (UNHCR - 20/03/00).
www.unsystem.org /scn/publications/RNIS/countries/guinea_all.htm   (12811 words)

  
 Guinea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a nation in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea.
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en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guinea   (1545 words)

  
 Guinea (05/06)
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.
Guinea has participated in both diplomatic and military efforts to resolve conflicts in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea-Bissau, and contributed contingents of troops to peacekeeping operations in all three countries as part of ECOMOG, the Military Observer Group of ECOWAS.
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2824.htm   (4229 words)

  
 UNIDO - 12 - 18 June   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In December 2004, the UN launched the Consolidated Appeal for Guinea 2005, pointing to the prevalence of a variety of vulnerable groups in Forest Guinea and the urgent need for strategies to stabilize the region, given its geographic location close to the three neighboring countries which have recently experienced armed conflicts.
Guinea had to deal with destruction of infrastructure, loss of property, the emergence of internally displaced persons (IDPs), as well as rising grievances of citizens who attribute their plight to insecurity related to the presence of the refugees and IDPs.
The prefectures mostly affected by refugee and returnee influx are N’Zérékoré, Lola, Yomou, Macenta, Guéckédou, Kissidougou in Forest Guinea, and - to a lesser extent - Forécariah prefectures.
www.unido.org /en/doc/38301   (2421 words)

  
 GUINEA
Guinea is also backing anti-RUF Sierra Leonean civil defense forces, including the Kamajors, the largest and most powerful of them, and Donsos, traditional fighters from the Kono region, to push the RUF rebels back from the border and pursue them into Sierra Leone.
Continuing insecurity, harassment and abuses against refugees in Guinea have prompted many refugees in the border area to decide not to move further into the interior where they believe they could more easily be targets of Guinean attacks in the future.
Guinea has previously closed its borders in this manner: In August 2000, some 10,000 refugees were trapped on the Sierra Leonean side of the border, many of them women and children.
www.hrw.org /reports/2001/guinea/guinea0701-02.htm   (2343 words)

  
 Guinea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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.
The name Guinea (geographically assigned to most of Africa's west coast, south of the Sahara desert and north of the Gulf of Guinea) originates from Berber and roughly translates into land of the fls.
guinea.iqnaut.net   (538 words)

  
 Worldworx Travel - Safety - Africa - Guinea
Guinea is a developing country in western Africa, with minimal facilities for tourism.
Guinea has experienced occasional civil unrest in the capital, Conakry, and in larger towns in all regions of the country.
Guinea's road network, both paved and unpaved, is underdeveloped and unsafe.
www.worldworx.tv /safety/africa/guinea/index.htm   (1671 words)

  
 USAID Guinea/Post-Conflict Assistance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Guinea, at great cost to itself, has hosted up to a million refugees from its warring neighbors, Sierra Leone and Liberia, in addition to those from Guinea Bissau and the Casamance region of Senegal, giving it at one stage the dubious distinction of hosting the largest refugee population in the world.
After Liberia accused Guinea of sanctioning attacks by Liberian dissidents from Guinean territory, the town of Macenta in the Forest Region of Guinea was attacked in September 2000.
Guinea itself is an anchor for the Mano River sub-region having served as a safe haven for approximately 1,000,000 refugees over the past decade and acted as a constructive force for securing peace in neighboring Sierra Leone.
www.usaid.gov /gn/postconflict   (1620 words)

  
 Guinea
Drivers in Guinea tend to be poorly trained, and routinely ignore road safety rules.
Guinea's road network, paved and unpaved, is underdeveloped and unsafe.
Guinea has many roadblocks set up by the police or the military, making inter- and intra-city travel difficult from 10:00 p.m.
travel.state.gov /travel/guinea.html   (2361 words)

  
 Guinea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a nation in West Africa, formerly known as French Guinea.
Present-day Guinea was created as a colony by France in 1890 with Noël Balley being the first governor.
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.zdnet.co.za /wiki/Guinea   (1537 words)

  
 WCC (E)
Today Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the sub-region and has the peculiarity of sharing its borders with countries which have had years of internal wars.
However to date, all the prefectures of Guinea reported AIDS cases and for each AIDS case reported, it is estimated that between 5 and 14 cases are unreported.
Guinea is one of the poorest countries in the sub-region and the structures established by the government are not able to cover the needs of the population in this area.
www.wcc-coe.org /wcc/what/mission/ehaia-html/wa-guinea-e.html   (4422 words)

  
 Friends of Guinea
Guinea Conakry is the only country in world to have witnessed a fall in fish uptake.
Guinea raised public service salaries by an average 30 percent earlier this month and the government last week warned that any striking civil servants would be sacked.
The December elections were seen as a test of the democratic apparatus in Guinea as concerns mount that widespread corruption, divisions in the military and economic problems could destabilise any transfer of power from the ageing, diabetic, chain-smoking Conte.
www.friendsofguinea.org /news_guinea/news2006.shtml   (4634 words)

  
 Guinea Prefectures
Guinea was known as French Guinea in 1900.
The prefectures are subdivided into 335 sous-préfectures (subprefectures) and five communes (the communes are in Conakry).
The prefectures are also grouped into eight administrative regions, as shown.
www.statoids.com /ugn.html   (317 words)

  
 Guinea Improves Rice
In Guinea, improving the productivity of upland rice is a key challenge for the national agricultural services.
Though rice is the main staple in Guinea, low yields make the country highly dependent on rice imports that it can ill afford.
In 1997, the first year of the program, 116 farmers in eight prefectures of Guinea completed trials, using their normal practices.
www.worldbank.org /html/aftsr/guinea1.htm   (725 words)

  
 Guinea
Those who continued their allegiance to opposition parties were relocated to different prefectures far from their home communities.
Each group spoke a distinct primary language and was concentrated in a distinct region: the Soussou in lower Guinea, the Peuhl in middle Guinea, and the Malinke in upper Guinea.
Union officials were selected on the basis of nepotism and patronage; these individuals were not sensitized to the rights of workers and often viewed unions as an enemy of the government.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2005/61573.htm   (10276 words)

  
 Holidays in Guinea - Travelling to Guinea - Holidays in Guinea - www.reiswijs.co.uk
Republic of Guinea in Northwest Africa - Former French Guinea, bordering Liberia and
This guide to West Africa explores all the visitable countries in West Africa, from Mauritania and the Cape Verde Islands in the west, to Niger and Cameroon in the east.
French domination was assured by the defeat in 1898 of the armies of Samory Touré, warlord and leader of Malinke descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas...
www.reiswijs.co.uk /destinations/africa/guinea/guinea.html   (1195 words)

  
 CCP: Anti-AIDS Alliance in Siguiri, Guinea
With a population of over 150,000, Siguiri is among the most populated prefectures in the region of Haute Guinea.
To bring together residents and former residents of Siguiri, Guinea to assess the community's need for information on HIV and AIDS and determine a course of action.
In January 2001, the CCP Resident Advisor in Guinea met with the Committee of Reflection to share with its members available data on the prevalence of HIV in their home city in the hope that they might be stimulated to action.
www.jhuccp.org /africa/com_mob/guinea_antiaids.shtml   (548 words)

  
 West Africa Trip Report
Guinea, for example has not been recently involved in civil conflict, but has been affected by the wars in Liberia and Sierra Leone by receiving a huge influx of refugees during the last decade.
Specifically, the maps detail the current estimated refugee populations in Guinea by sous-préfecture, the approximate year of arrival of the majority of those refugees, and the estimated destinations (by district in Sierra Leone or by county in Liberia) and numbers of refugees and IDPs expected to resettle.
As with Guinea, it must be noted that the current state of affairs in Sierra Leone and northern Liberia prohibits the resettlement of IDPs and refugees now in Sierra Leone.
www.worldwildlife.org /bsp/publications/africa/postwork/postwork.html   (14435 words)

  
 Government Of Guinea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
If you would like to use this flag of Guinea or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this map of Guinea or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
If you would like to use this information for Guinea or any other on your website you are welcome to do so, all we ask is that you include a link back to our site on the same page.
www.appliedlanguage.com /country_guides/guinea_country_government.shtml   (500 words)

  
 CCP: PRISM Youth Campaign in Guinea
PRISM was designed by USAID, together with the Government of Guinea, and is a five-year family planning and reproductive health program (1997 - 2002), with a three-year extension (2003-2005).
At the prefectoral level, the GPIEC established a "steering committee" in each prefecture to execute the campaign for that prefecture.
As of June 2003, a new prefecture (Kissidougou) had been added to the PRISM project, for a total of 9 prefectures.
www.jhuccp.org /africa/com_mob/guinea_prism.shtml   (1154 words)

  
 National Cooperative Business Association
NCBA's CLUSA International Program project in Guinea was originally designed to assist cooperatives in the Guinea Maritime region to become sustainable, member-owned and member-managed business enterprises.
In 2001, the project expanded geographically from the maritime region to four prefectures in Upper Guinea, and programmatically, with the introduction of Credit Intermediation Services.
The mean net worth of the group businesses participating in the project increased by 159 percent during 1999 and remained stable during 2000 as rebel incursions along the Sierra Leone border with Guinea led to mass evacuations of rural populations, resulting in large production losses.
www.ncba.coop /clusa_work_guinea.cfm   (814 words)

  
 Appeals: West Africa, Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP): Mid-Year Review of the Humanitarian Appeal 2005 for Guinea ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Guinea continues to face the challenge of having to prevent tensions by solving internal structural problems, upholding its current role as a stabilising factor in the sub-region, and simultaneously neutralising the spill over effect of sub-regional instability.
The outcome of the elections in Guinea Bissau in June, and Côte d'Ivoire and Liberia in October could play a key role in stabilising Guinea and the sub-region.
Immature swarms of locusts briefly ravaged 19 prefectures of Guinea en route from Senegal and Guinea Bissau to Mali and the Ivory Coast.
www.reliefweb.int.cob-web.org:8888 /rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EVOD-6DMKKU?OpenDocument&rc=1&cc=gin   (2053 words)

  
 Activities in Guinea
The five clusters of activities of the SAGE program in Guinea resulted from a series of working meetings and focus groups that included representatives from the Ministry of Education, leaders of the different religious groups, parents, teachers, journalists, business leaders, NGOs, CBOs, and donors.
Action: SAGE Guinea assisted in establishing a national fund for girls' education (Fonds National de Soutien à l’Education des Filles - FONSEF) and held the first annual meeting of FONSEF in December 2000.
Action: In November 2000, SAGE Guinea conducted an annual survey to assess the 6 Local Alliances’ performance in girls’ education activities.
sage.aed.org /Practice/guinea.htm   (464 words)

  
 UNIDO - UNIDO Community Based Production Centres in Forest Guinea supported by Japan's UN Trust Fund for Human Security   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
In December 2004, the UN launched the Consolidated Appeal for Guinea 2005, pointing to the prevalence of a variety of vulnerable groups in Forest Guinea and its importance for strategies to stabilize the region, given its geographic location close to the three neighboring countries which have recently experienced armed conflicts.
Over the last decade, Guinea has been host of approximately 1 million refugees.
According to the Consolidated Appeal for Guinea 2005 (CAP 2005), the number of refugees in Forest Guinea coming from Sierra Leone and Côte d’Ivoire, is about 78,000.
www.unido.org /doc/38328   (732 words)

  
 Guinea Government Information
Opposition political parties are severely hampered by their lack of access to the electronic media.
The independent print media reports on both sides of issues, but since Guinea's literacy rate is only 35%, a large majority of the population hears only the official government side.
Opposition--Rally for the Guinean People (RPG), Union for a New Republic (UNR), Party for Renewal and Progress (PRP), Union for Progress of Guinea (UPG), Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG), Union of Republican Forces (UFR).
www.traveldocs.com /gn/govern.htm   (407 words)

  
 Top20Guinea.com - Your Top20 Guide to Guinea!
The Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée) is a nation in northwest Africa.
Europeans first came to the area as part of the slave trade, beginning in the 16th century.
The Vancouver-based guitarist Alpha Yaya Diallo hails from Guinea and incorporates its traditional rhythms and melodies into his original compositions, for which he has won two Juno (Canadian music) awards.
www.top20guinea.com   (830 words)

  
 Guinea - Reports to Treaty Bodies
Guinea's combined second through eleventh periodic reports (CERD/C/334/Add.1, September 1998) were submitted as one document which was considered by the Committee at its August 1999 session.
The report deals with measures to give effect to articles 2-6 of the Convention and contains information on, inter alia: provisions of the Constitution of December 1990 and of the Criminal Code; national legislation concerning discrimination; progress made in establishing the rights set out in article 5 of the Convention.
Guinea's initial report (CRC/C/3/Add.48, November 1996) was considered by the Committee at its January 1999 session.
www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/vol2/guineatb.htm   (1228 words)

  
 Prefectures of Guinea   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
BHP Billiton opens office in Guinea, to handle West Africa exploration - MarketWatch
BHP Billiton opens office in Guinea, to handle West Africa exploration
The office will be managed by Rainer Engels and will serve the company's interests in Guinea, as well as its exploration activities in West Africa.
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/p/pr/prefectures_of_guinea.html   (72 words)

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