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<\/a>The sovereign state of Guinea is a republic with a president who is directly elected by the people; this position is both head of state and head of government. The unicameral Guinean National Assembly is the legislative body of the country, and its members are also directly elected by the people. The judicial branch is led by the Guinea Supreme Court, the highest and final court of appeal in the country.<\/p>\n
Guinea is a predominantly Islamic country, with Muslims representing 85 percent of the population. Guinea’s people belong to twenty-four ethnic groups. French, the official language of Guinea, is the main language of communication in schools, in government administration, and the media, but more than twenty-four indigenous languages are also spoken.<\/p>\n
Guinea’s economy is largely dependent on agriculture and mineral production. It is the world’s second largest producer of bauxite<\/a>, and has rich deposits of diamonds and gold. The country was at the core of the 2014 Ebola outbreak<\/a>. Human rights in Guinea remain a controversial issue. In 2011 the United States government claimed that torture by security forces, and abuse of women and children (e.g. female genital mutilation) were ongoing abuses of human rights.<\/p>\n What is now Guinea was on the fringes of the major West African empires. The earliest, the Ghana Empire<\/a>, grew on trade but ultimately fell after repeated incursions of the Almoravids<\/a>. It was in this period that Islam first arrived in the region by way of North African traders.<\/p>\n The Sosso kingdom<\/a> (12th to 13th centuries) briefly flourished in the resulting void but the Mali Empire<\/a> came to prominence when Soundiata K\u00e9\u00efta<\/a> defeated the Sosso ruler Soumangourou Kant\u00e9<\/a> at the Battle of Kirina<\/a> in c. 1235. The Mali Empire was ruled by Mansa (Emperors), the most famous being Kankou Moussa<\/a>, who made a famous hajj<\/a> to Mecca in 1324. Shortly after his reign the Mali Empire began to decline and was ultimately supplanted by its vassal states in the 15th century.<\/p>\n The most successful of these was the Songhai Empire<\/a>, which expanded its power from about 1460 and eventually surpassed the Mali Empire in both territory and wealth. It continued to prosper until a civil war over succession followed the death of Askia Daoud<\/a> in 1582. The weakened empire fell to invaders from Morocco<\/a> at the Battle of Tondibi<\/a> just three years later. The Moroccans proved unable to rule the kingdom effectively, however, and it split into many small kingdoms.<\/p>\n After the fall of the major West African empires, various kingdoms existed in what is now Guinea. Fulani<\/a> Muslims migrated to Futa Jallon<\/a> in Central Guinea and established an Islamic state from 1727 to 1896 with a written constitution and alternate rulers. The Wassoulou or Wassulu<\/a> empire was a short-lived (1878\u20131898) empire, led by Samori Toure<\/a> in the predominantly Malink\u00e9<\/a> area of what is now upper Guinea and southwestern Mali (Wassoulou). It moved to Ivory Coast<\/a> before being conquered by the French.<\/p>\n The slave trade came to the coastal region of Guinea with European traders in the 16th century. Slaves were exported to work elsewhere in the triangular trade.<\/p>\n 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 Samori Tour\u00e9, Mansa (or Emperor) of the Ouassoulou state and leader of Malink\u00e9 descent, which gave France control of what today is Guinea and adjacent areas.<\/p>\n France negotiated Guinea’s present boundaries in the late 19th and early 20th centuries with the British for Sierra Leone<\/a>, the Portuguese for their Guinea colony (now Guinea-Bissau<\/a>), and Liberia<\/a>. Under the French, the country formed the Territory of Guinea within French West Africa<\/a>, administered by a governor general resident in Dakar<\/a>. Lieutenant governors administered the individual colonies, including Guinea.<\/p>\n In 1958, the French Fourth Republic<\/a> collapsed due to political instability and its failures in dealing with its colonies, especially Indochina<\/a> and Algeria<\/a>. The founding of a Fifth Republic<\/a> was supported by the French people, while French President Charles de Gaulle made it clear on 8 August 1958 that France’s colonies were to be given a stark choice between more autonomy in a new French Community<\/a> or immediate independence in the referendum to be held on 28 September 1958. The other colonies chose the former but Guinea\u2014under the leadership of Ahmed S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9<\/a> whose Democratic Party of Guinea-African Democratic Rally (PDG)<\/a> had won 56 of 60 seats in 1957 territorial elections \u2013 voted overwhelmingly for independence. The French withdrew quickly, and on 2 October 1958, Guinea proclaimed itself a sovereign and independent republic, with S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9 as president.<\/p>\n In response to the vote for independence, the French settlers in Guinea were quite dramatic in severing ties with Guinea. The Washington Post observes how brutal the French were in tearing down all what they thought was their contributions to Guinea: “In reaction, and as a warning to other French-speaking territories, the French pulled out of Guinea over a two-month period, taking everything they could with them. They unscrewed lightbulbs, removed plans for sewage pipelines in Conakry, the capital, and even burned medicines rather than leave them for the Guineans.”<\/p>\n Guinea subsequently quickly aligned itself with the Soviet Union<\/a> and adopted socialist policies. This alliance was short-lived, however, as Guinea moved towards a Chinese model of socialism. Despite this, however, the country continued to receive investment from capitalist countries such as the United States. By 1960, Tour\u00e9 had declared the PDG the country’s only legal political party and for the next 24 years, the government and the PDG were one. Tour\u00e9 was reelected unopposed to four seven-year terms as president, and every five years voters were presented with a single list of PDG candidates for the National Assembly. Advocating a hybrid African Socialism<\/a> domestically and Pan-Africanism abroad, Tour\u00e9 quickly became a polarising leader, and his government became intolerant of dissent, imprisoning thousands and stifling the press.<\/p>\n Throughout the 1960s the Guinean government nationalized land, removed French-appointed and traditional chiefs from power, and had strained ties with the French government and French companies. Tour\u00e9’s government relied on the Soviet Union and China for infrastructure aid and development but much of this was used for political and not economic purposes (such as the building of large stadiums to hold political rallies). Meanwhile, the country’s roads, railways and other infrastructure languished and the economy stagnated.<\/p>\n On 22 November 1970, Portuguese forces from neighboring Portuguese Guinea staged Operation Green Sea<\/a>, a raid on Conakry by several hundred exiled Guinean opposition forces. Among their goals, the Portuguese military wanted to kill or capture Sekou Toure due his support of the PAIGC<\/a>, an independence movement and rebel group that carried out attacks inside Portuguese Guinea from their bases in Guinea. After fierce fighting, the Portuguese-backed forces retreated, having freed several dozen Portuguese prisoners of war that were being held by the PAIGC in Conakry but without having ousted Tour\u00e9. In the years after the raid, massive purges were carried out by the Tour\u00e9 government and at least 50,000 people (1% of Guinea’s entire population) were killed. Countless others were imprisoned, faced torture, or, often in the case of foreigners, were forced to leave the country (sometimes after having had their Guinean spouse arrested and their children placed into state custody).<\/p>\n A declining economy, mass killings, a stifling political atmosphere, and a ban on all private economic transactions led in 1977 to the “Market Women’s Revolt<\/a>“, anti-government riots that were started by women working in Conakry’s Madina Market<\/a>. This caused Tour\u00e9 to make major reforms. Tour\u00e9 vacillated from supporting the Soviet Union to supporting the United States. The late 1970s and early 1980s saw some economic reforms but Tour\u00e9’s centralized control of the state remained. Even the relationship with France improved; after the election of Val\u00e9ry Giscard d’Estaing<\/a> as French president, trade increased and the two countries exchanged diplomatic visits.<\/p>\n S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9 died on 26 March 1984 after a heart operation in the United States, and was replaced by Prime Minister Louis Lansana Beavogui<\/a>, who was to serve as interim president pending new elections. The PDG was due to elect a new leader on 3 April 1984. Under the constitution, that person would have been the only candidate for president. However, hours before that meeting, Colonels Lansana Cont\u00e9<\/a> and Diarra Traor\u00e9<\/a> seized power in a bloodless coup. Cont\u00e9 assumed the role of president, with Traor\u00e9 serving as prime minister until December.<\/p>\n Cont\u00e9 immediately denounced the previous regime’s record on human rights, released 250 political prisoners and encouraged approximately 200,000 more to return from exile. He also made explicit the turn away from socialism. This did little to alleviate poverty and the country showed no immediate signs of moving towards democracy.<\/p>\n In 1992, Cont\u00e9 announced a return to civilian rule, with a presidential poll in 1993 followed by elections to parliament in 1995 (in which his party\u2014the Party of Unity and Progress<\/a>\u2014won 71 of 114 seats.) Despite his stated commitment to democracy, Cont\u00e9’s grip on power remained tight. In September 2001, the opposition leader Alpha Cond\u00e9<\/a> was imprisoned for endangering state security, though he was pardoned 8 months later. He subsequently spent a period of exile in France.<\/p>\n In 2001, Cont\u00e9 organized and won a referendum to lengthen the presidential term and in 2003 began his third term after elections were boycotted by the opposition. In January 2005, Cont\u00e9 survived a suspected assassination attempt while making a rare public appearance in the capital Conakry<\/a>. His opponents claimed that he was a “tired dictator” whose departure was inevitable, whereas his supporters believed that he was winning a battle with dissidents. Guinea still faces very real problems and according to Foreign Policy<\/a> is in danger of becoming a failed state.<\/p>\n In 2000, Guinea became embroiled in the instability which had long blighted the rest of West Africa as rebels crossed the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone and it seemed for a time that the country was headed for civil war. Cont\u00e9 blamed neighboring leaders for coveting Guinea’s natural resources, though these claims were strenuously denied. In 2003, Guinea agreed to plans with her neighbors to tackle the insurgents. In 2007, there were large protests<\/a> against the government, resulting in the appointment of a new prime minister.<\/p>\n Cont\u00e9 remained in power until his death on 23 December 2008 and several hours following his death, Moussa Dadis Camara<\/a> seized control in a coup, declaring himself head of a military junta. Protests against the coup became violent and 157 people were killed when, on 28 September 2009, the junta ordered its soldiers to attack people who had gathered to protest against Camara’s attempt to become president. The soldiers went on a rampage of rape, mutilation, and murder which caused many foreign governments to withdraw their support for the new regime.<\/p>\n On 3 December 2009, an aide shot Camara during a dispute over the rampage in September. Camara went to Morocco for medical care. Vice-President (and defense minister) S\u00e9kouba Konat\u00e9<\/a> flew back from Lebanon<\/a> to run the country in Camara’s absence. After meeting in Ouagadougou<\/a> on 13 and 14 January 2010, Camara, Konat\u00e9 and Blaise Compaor\u00e9<\/a>, President of Burkina Faso, produced a formal statement of twelve principles promising a return of Guinea to civilian rule within six months.<\/p>\n The presidential election was held on 27 June, with a second election held on 7 November due to allegations of electoral fraud. Voter turnout was high, and the elections went relatively smoothly. Alpha Cond\u00e9, leader of the opposition party Rally of the Guinean People (RGP)<\/a>, won the election promising to reform the security sector and review mining contracts.<\/p>\n In late February 2013, political violence<\/a> erupted in Guinea after protesters took to the streets to voice their concerns over the transparency of the upcoming May 2013 elections. The demonstrations were fueled by the opposition coalition’s decision to step down from the electoral process in protest at the lack of transparency in the preparations for elections. Nine people were killed during the protests, and around 220 were injured. Many of the deaths and injuries were caused by security forces using live ammunition on protesters.<\/p>\n The political violence also led to inter-ethnic clashes between the Fula and Malinke<\/a>, the base of support for President Cond\u00e9. The former mainly supported the opposition.<\/p>\n On 26 March 2013, the opposition party backed out of the negotiations with the government over the upcoming 12 May election. The opposition said that the government had not respected them, and had not kept any promises they agreed to.<\/p>\n On 25 March 2014, the World Health Organization<\/a> said that Guinea’s Ministry of Health had reported an outbreak<\/a> of Ebola virus disease<\/a> in Guinea. This initial outbreak had a total of 86 cases, including 59 deaths. By 28 May, there were 281 cases, with 186 deaths. It is believed that the first case was Emile Ouamouno, a 2-year-old boy who lived in the village of Meliandou<\/a>. He fell ill on 2 December 2013 and died on 6 December. On 18 September 2014, eight members of an Ebola education health care team were murdered<\/a> by villagers in the town of Womey<\/a>. As of 1 November 2015, there have been 3,810 cases and 2,536 deaths in Guinea.<\/p>\n Guinea shares a border with Guinea-Bissau<\/a> to the north-west, Senegal<\/a> to the north, Mali<\/a> to the north-east, Ivory Coast<\/a> to the east, Sierra Leone<\/a> to the south-west and Liberia<\/a> to the south. The nation forms a crescent as it curves from its southeast region to the north and west, to its northwest border with Guinea-Bissau and southwestern coast on the Atlantic Ocean. The sources of the Niger River<\/a>, Gambia River<\/a>, and Senegal River<\/a> are all found in the Guinea Highlands<\/a>.<\/p>\n At 245,857 km2 (94,926 sq mi), Guinea is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. There are 320 km (200 mi) of coastline and a total land border of 3,400 km (2,100 mi).<\/p>\n Guinea is divided into four main regions: Maritime Guinea<\/a>, also known as Lower Guinea or the Basse-Cot\u00e9 lowlands, populated mainly by the Susu<\/a> ethnic group; the cooler, mountainous Fouta Djallon<\/a> that run roughly north\u2013south through the middle of the country, populated by Fulas, the Sahelian Haute-Guinea to the northeast, populated by Malink\u00e9<\/a>, and the forested jungle regions in the southeast, with several ethnic groups.<\/p>\n The highest point in Guinea is Mount Nimba<\/a> at 1,752 m (5,748 ft). Although the Guinean and Ivorian sides of the Nimba Massif<\/a> are a UNESCO<\/a> Strict Nature Reserve<\/a>, the portion of the so-called Guinean Backbone continues into Liberia, where it has been mined for decades; the damage is quite evident in the Nz\u00e9r\u00e9kor\u00e9 Region<\/a>.<\/p>\n Guinea has abundant natural resources including 25% or more of the world’s known bauxite<\/a> reserves. Guinea also has diamonds, gold, and other metals. The country has great potential for hydroelectric power. Bauxite and alumina<\/a> are currently the only major exports. Other industries include processing plants for beer, juices, soft drinks and tobacco. Agriculture employs 80% of the nation’s labor force. Under French rule, and at the beginning of independence, Guinea was a major exporter of bananas, pineapples, coffee, peanuts, and palm oil. Guinea has considerable potential for growth in the agricultural and fishing sectors. Soil, water, and climatic conditions provide opportunities for large-scale irrigated farming and agro industry.<\/p>\n Guinea possesses over 25 billion tonnes (metric tons) of bauxite \u2013 and perhaps up to one-half of the world’s reserves. In addition, Guinea’s mineral wealth includes more than 4-billion tonnes of high-grade iron ore, significant diamond and gold deposits, and undetermined quantities of uranium. Possibilities for investment and commercial activities exist in all these areas, but Guinea’s poorly developed infrastructure and rampant corruption continue to present obstacles to large-scale investment projects.<\/p>\n The majority of Guineans work in the agriculture sector<\/a>, which employs approximately 75% of the country. The rice is cultivated in the flooded zones between streams and rivers. However, the local production of rice is not sufficient to feed the country, so rice is imported from Asia. The agriculture sector of Guinea cultivates coffee beans, pineapples, peaches, nectarines, mangoes, oranges, bananas, potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, pepper, and many other types of produce. Guinea is one of the emerging regional producers of apples and pears. There are many plantations of grapes, pomegranates, and recent years have seen the development of strawberry plantations based on the vertical hydroponic system.<\/p>\n Due to its diverse geography, Guinea presents some interesting tourist sites. Among the top attractions are the waterfalls found mostly in the Basse Guinee (Lower Guinea) and Moyenne Guinee (Middle Guinea) regions. The Soumba cascade at the foot of Mount Kakoulima in Kindia, Voile de la Mari\u00e9e (bride’s veil) in Dubreka, the Kinkon cascades that are about 80 m (260 ft) high on the Kokoula River in the prefecture of Pita, the Kambadaga falls that can reach 100 m (330 ft) during the rainy season on the same river, the Ditinn & Mitty waterfalls in Dalaba, and the Fetor\u00e9 waterfalls and the stone bridge in the region of Labe are among the most well-known water-related tourist sites.<\/p>\n The railway from Conakry to Kankan<\/a> ceased operating in the mid-1980s. Domestic air services are intermittent. Most vehicles in Guinea are 20+ years old, and cabs are any four-door vehicle which the owner has designated as being for hire. Locals, nearly entirely without vehicles of their own, rely upon these taxis (which charge per seat) and small buses to take them around town and across the country. There is some river traffic on the Niger<\/a> and Milo<\/a> rivers. Horses and donkeys pull carts, primarily to transport construction materials.<\/p>\n Conakry International Airport<\/a> is the largest airport in the country, with flights to other cities in Africa as well as to Europe.<\/p>\n The national flag of Guinea was adopted on 10 November 1958.<\/p>\n The colors of the flag were adapted from those of the Rassemblement D\u00e9mocratique Africain<\/a>, the dominant movement at the time of independence. The colors were in turn derived from those of the flag of Ghana<\/a>, which had first adopted them in 1957. S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9<\/a>, the first President of Guinea, was a close associate of Kwame Nkrumah<\/a>, the former president of Ghana.<\/p>\n Red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs who died from slavery and wars, yellow represents the sun and the riches of the country, and green the country’s vegetation. In keeping with other flags in the region, the Pan-African movement’s colors of red, yellow, and green are used.<\/p>\n The design is a tricolor. The colors of the flag from left to right are the reverse of the flag of Mali<\/a>. The previous flag of Rwanda<\/a>, whose design was inspired by the flag of the Kingdom of Rwanda, had a large black R to make it distinguishable from the near-identical flag of Guinea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The national flag of Guinea was adopted on 10 November 1958.<\/p>\n The colors of the flag were adapted from those of the Rassemblement D\u00e9mocratique Africain, the dominant movement at the time of independence. The colors were in turn derived from those of the flag of Ghana, which had first adopted them in 1957. S\u00e9kou Tour\u00e9, the first President of Guinea, was a close associate of Kwame Nkrumah, the former president of Ghana.<\/p>\n Red symbolizes the blood of the martyrs who died from slavery and wars, yellow represents the sun and the riches of the country, and green the country’s vegetation. In keeping with other flags in the region, the Pan-African movement’s colors of red, yellow, and green are used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[19,66,59,5,149,27,6,7,18],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smoketreemanor.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}History:<\/h2>\n
West African Empires and Kingdoms in Guinea:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Colonial Era:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Independence and Post-Colonial rule (1958\u20132008):<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Recent History:<\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Geography:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Economy:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Transportation:<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Flag of Guinea:<\/h2>\n
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