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Conakry is the capital and largest city of Guinea. A port city, it serves as the economic, financial and cultural centre of Guinea. Its population as of the 2014 Guinea census was 1,660,973.
Ahmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who became the first president of Guinea, serving from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining independence of the country from France. He would later die in the United States in 1984.
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Following independence, the government of Guinea adopted rules of transcription for the languages of Guinea based on the characters and diacritic combinations available on typewriters of that period. This alphabet was used officially until 1989.
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Gamal Abdel Nasser University of Conakry, is the largest university in Guinea and located in Dixinn Commune, Conakry, Guinea. The name is generally shortened to the University of Conakry.
The Republic of Guinea is a multilingual country, with over 40 languages spoken. The official language is French, which was inherited from colonial rule.
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Le Phare de Guinée was a newspaper published in Guinea between 1947 and 1949. The newspaper was published by the Democratic Party of Guinea (PDG), the Guinean section of the African Democratic Rally (RDA).
Julius Nyerere University of Kankan (UJNK), also known as Université de Kankan is a university in Kankan, Guinea. It is named after Julius Nyerere, the first President of Tanzania.
The Guinea National Library is the national library of Guinea, located in the capital city of Conakry.
First lady of Guinea is the title attributed to the wife of the president of Guinea. The country's present first lady is Lauriane Doumbouya, wife of interim President Mamady Doumbouya, who had held the position since the 2021 Guinean coup d'etat on September 5, 2021. There has been no first gentleman of Guinea to date.
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The Ligue 1 is the top tier men's basketball league in Guinea. The defending champion is SLAC, which won its sixth title in 2021. Most games of the league are played in the Palais des Sports next to the Stade du 28 Septembre in Conakry.
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- ↑ Guinea. Ranking Web of Universities, Cybermetrics Lab – CSIC, retrieved March 19, 2014
- ↑ "Utad-Guinée". Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2019-05-06.