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Association Sportive Kaloum , also known as A.S.K, is a football club based in Conakry, Guinea. In the 1960s A.S.K was known as Conakry I, and won three titles under that name.
Eagle Air is a Guinean airline based at the Conakry International Airport in Conakry, Guinea. It operates charter flights within Guinea. The seventeen seat Let 410-Turbolet aircraft may be chartered for flights from Guinea to Monrovia, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Dakar, Senegal and Banjul, The Gambia amongst other destinations across Western Africa.
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Air Guinee International was a planned airline based in Conakry, Guinea. Created in partnership between the Government of Guinea and the China International Fund. Air Guinée International should offer regular flights in the neighboring region. The company overtook Boeing 737-300 family aircraft using European safety standards (JAR-OPS). But, however, the airline did not commence operation.
The Sandervalia National Museum is the national museum of Guinea, situated in the capital, Conakry. Most of the rooms are empty, but it contains a limited display of traditional objects from different regions of Guinea, as well as objects and statues from the colonial era. Various craft items are for sale.
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