Guinea (/ˈɡɪni/), officially the Republic of Guinea (French: République de Guinée), is a west-coastal country in West Africa. Formerly known as French Guinea (French: Guinée française), the modern country is sometimes referred to as Guinea-Conakry to distinguish it from other countries with "Guinea" in the name and the eponymous region, such as Guinea-Bissau and Equatorial Guinea.[6][7][8][9] Guinea has a population of 12.4 million and an area of 245,860 square kilometres (94,927 sq mi).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. The country is named after the Guinea region. Guinea is a traditional name for the region of Africa that lies along the Gulf of Guinea. It stretches north through the forested tropical regions and ends at the Sahel. The English term Guinea comes directly from the Portuguese word Guiné, which emerged in the mid-15th century to refer to the lands inhabited by the Guineus, a generic term for the black African peoples south of the Senegal River, in contrast to the "tawny" Zenaga Berbers above it, whom they called Azenegues or Moors. Guinea is a predominantly Islamic country, with Muslims representing 85 percent of the population.[12][13][6] 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. Guinea's economy is largely dependent on agriculture and mineral production.[14] It is the world's second largest producer of bauxite, and has rich deposits of diamonds and gold.
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- https://www.ft.com/content/c576ffd1-7e86-49e4-8603-18021e93f577 A company controlled by billionaire mining investor Robert Friedland has raised $200m for the development of a large iron ore deposit in an environmentally sensitive part of Guinea. The funds received from an equity issue will help High Power Exploration, a private US company run by Friedland, accelerate work on the Nimba project, where it is targeting initial production of 15m tonnes a year.Guinea has some of the world’s highest grade iron ore, including the giant Simandou deposit, but the west African country has failed to export any of the material even though prices for the steelmaking ingredient have boomed since a trough in 2016.“Nimba will be the first major iron ore exporter from Guinea,” said Guy de Selliers, chairman of the Société des Mines de Fer de Guinée, the entity that owns Nimba, in an interview with the Financial Times. “This is the caviar of iron ore,” said de Selliers. SMFG is 85 per cent owned by HPX and 15 per cent by the government of Guinea.Simandou has been the subject of numerous battles between Rio Tinto, Vale and BSGR, the mining company of Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz, while other projects have also been stymied by legal rows and a lack of infrastructure.Guinea’s president Alpha Condé is trying to change that and his government has said it will allow some smaller iron ore deposits such as Nimba to export iron ore by rail through neighbouring Liberia. The China-backed consortium developing Simandou, however, will have to build a 650km trans-Guinean railway linking the deposit with a deepwater port on the coast.If Guinea is able to exploit its huge endowment of iron ore, it could redraw the map for one of the world’s most important commodities and provide China’s vast steel industry with a new source of supply. China currently buys most of its ore from Australia. An ore industry would also provide a much needed source of foreign income for Guinea, one of the world’s poorest countries.Located in the south-east of Guinea, Nimba is estimated to hold about 1bn tonnes of the commodity. Its ore is high grade with an iron content of 65 per cent.
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- Alpha Condé (born 4 March 1938) is a Guinean politician who has been President of Guineasince December 2010. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against President Lansana Conté in the 1993 and 1998 presidential elections and leading the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), an opposition party. Standing again in the 2010 presidential election, Condé was elected as President of Guinea in a second round of voting. When he took office that December, he became the first freely elected president in the country's history. Condé was reelected in 2015 with almost 58 percent of the vote. Condé was born on 4 March 1938 in Bokein Lower Guinea. His parents were from Baro, a small town in Kouroussa Prefecture in the Kankan Region of Upper Guinea.Condé left for France at the age of 15. He was active in parallel within the National Union of Higher Education (SNESUP) and combined the functions of charge within the Association of Guinean students in France (AEGF), and within the Federation of Black African Students in France (FEANF), in which he was the Executive Coordinator of African National Groups (NG) from 1967 to 1975, overseeing the activities of the Directorate of FEANF.
- Alpha Condé (born 4 March 1938) is a Guinean politician who has been President of Guineasince December 2010. He spent decades in opposition to a succession of regimes in Guinea, unsuccessfully running against President Lansana Conté in the 1993 and 1998 presidential elections and leading the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG), an opposition party. Standing again in the 2010 presidential election, Condé was elected as President of Guinea in a second round of voting. When he took office that December, he became the first freely elected president in the country's history. Condé was reelected in 2015 with almost 58 percent of the vote. Condé was born on 4 March 1938 in Bokein Lower Guinea. His parents were from Baro, a small town in Kouroussa Prefecture in the Kankan Region of Upper Guinea.Condé left for France at the age of 15. He was active in parallel within the National Union of Higher Education (SNESUP) and combined the functions of charge within the Association of Guinean students in France (AEGF), and within the Federation of Black African Students in France (FEANF), in which he was the Executive Coordinator of African National Groups (NG) from 1967 to 1975, overseeing the activities of the Directorate of FEANF.
- Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue (born 25 June 1968,[2] nicknamed Teodorín) is the Vice President of Equatorial Guinea, in office since 2012. He is a son of Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, the President of Equatorial Guinea, by his first wife, Constancia Mangue Nsue Okomo. He served for years as Minister of Agriculture and Forestry in his father's government before being appointed as Second Vice-President, in charge of defense and security, in May 2012. He was promoted to the position of First Vice-President in June, 2016.Nguema Obiang studied at l'Ecole des Roches of Normandy, a French private school,[3] he also spent five months at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.[3][4] However, according to The Times, Obiang graduated from that university.
- 英國邦瀚斯拍賣行周日在瑞士日內瓦，拍賣西非國家赤道畿內亞總統之子、副總統特奧多林（Teodoro Nguema Obiang Mangue）早前被瑞士當局扣押的二十五架豪華跑車，當中包括林寶堅尼、法拉利、賓利和勞斯萊斯，共售出約二千七百萬美元（約二億一千萬港元），部分收益中將會捐到慈善機構。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20191001/00180_019.html
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- 社交網近日流傳一段「畿內亞政府拘捕境內所有中國公民」的文章及片段，更指當局「扣押了當地所有中國公民，直至在中國的畿內亞人安全地回國」。中國駐畿內亞大使館昨日指相關內容純屬捏造，並對公然造謠、破壞中畿友誼和中非友誼的行為表示憤慨和譴責。https://orientaldaily.on.cc/cnt/china_world/20200421/00180_014.html