Guinea
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- 5 Aug 1849 - 2 Oct
1958
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- Adopted 2 Oct 1958
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Map
of Guinea
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Hear
National Anthem
"Liberté" (Liberty)
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Text
of National Anthem
Adopted 1958
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Constitution
(7 May 2010; in French)
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Capital:
Conakry
(Saint Louis, Senegal 1849-1891)
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Currency:
Guinean Franc (GNF);
1972-1986 Guinea Syli (GNS);
1958-1972 Guinea Franc (GNI)
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National
Holiday: 2 Oct (1958)
Fête Nationale de la
Guinée
(Independence Day)
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Population:
11,855,411 (2018) |
GDP: $27.9
billion (2017)
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Exports:
$3.51 billion (2017)
Imports: $4.79
billion (2017)
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Ethnic
groups: Fulani (Peul) 32.1%,
Malinke 29.8%,
Susu 19.8%, Guerze 6.2%, Kissi 4.7%,
Toma 2.8%,
other/no answer 4.6% (2012) |
Total Active
Armed Forces: 12,300 (2010)
Merchant marine:
1 ship (2018)
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Religions:
Muslim 89.1%, Christian 6.8%, animist
1.6%,
other .1%, none 2.4% (2014)
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International
Organizations/Treaties: ACP,
AfCFTA,
AfDB, AIIB (nonregional),
APM, AU, CCM,
CEN-SAD, CTBT, CWC, ECOWAS, EITI, ESCR, FAO,
G-77, IAEA (applicant), IBRD, ICAO,
ICCt, ICRM, ICSID, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC,
IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Interpol, IOC,
IOM, IPU, IRENA, ISA, ISESCO, ISO (correspondent), ITSO,
ITU, ITUC, MIGA, NAM, NPT, OIC, OIF,
OPCW, UN, UNCLOS, UNCTAD,
UNESCO, UNFCC, UNFCC-KP, UNFCC-PA, UNHCR,
UNIDO, UNWTO, UPU, WAMZ, WCO, WFTU, WHO,
WIPO, WMO, WTO
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Guinea
Index
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Chronology
4 Mar 1848 - 1856
Failed
Belgian claim at Nunez River (Rio
Nuñez).
5
Aug
1849
French protectorate over coastal
region
(Établissements des
Riviéres du Sud).
12
Oct
1882
Riviéres du Sud territory.
1 Aug
1889
Riviéres du Sud colony autonomous.
1 Aug
1891
French Riviéres du Sud colony.
10
Mar
1893
French Guinea (Guinée Française)
colony.
16
Jun
1895
Part of French West Africa (see Senegal).
16
Jun 1940 - 23 Nov 1942
Administration loyal to Vichy France
(from 23 Nov
1942 [under Darlan to 24 Dec 1942],
Free French).
27
Oct
1946
Guinea overseas territory of France.
2 Oct
1958
Independence from France (Republic of
Guinea).
1
May 1959 - May
1963 Part of
the Union of Independent African
States a
loose federation of Ghana and Guinea
(which on
1 Jul 1961, is renamed Union of
African States
with the addition of Mali).
1 Jan
1979
People's Revolutionary Republic of
Guinea
23
May
1984
Republic of Guinea
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Traditional
States
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Historical
Maps
of
Guinea
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Lieutenant-governors
5 Aug 1849 - 12 Oct 1882 direct
rule by the governor of Senegal
12 Oct 1882 - 2 Nov 1900 Jean-Marie
Bayol
(b. 1849 - d. 1905)
22 Dec 1891 - 22 Jul 1892 Noël Eugène
Ballay
(b. 1847 - d. 1902)
22 Jun 1892 - Apr
1893 Paul Jean
François Cousturier (b. 1849 - d.
1921)
(1st time)(acting for Ballay)
23 Apr 1895 - 28 May 1896 Paul Jean
François Cousturier (s.a.)
(2nd time)(acting for Ballay)
21 Jun 1898 - 12 Apr 1900 Paul Jean
François Cousturier (s.a.)
(3rd time)(acting for Ballay)
2 Nov 1900 - 28 Sep 1904 Paul Jean
François Cousturier (s.a.)
28 Sep 1904 - 27 Mar 1906 Antoine Marie
Auguste Frézouls
(b. 1860 - d. af.1923)
(acting to 15 Oct 1904)
27 Mar 1906 - 16 May 1907 Jules Louis
Richard (acting) (b.
1854 - d. 1915)
16 May 1907 - 25 Jul 1907 Joost van
Vollenhouven (acting) (b. 1877 - d.
1918)
26 Jul 1907 - 18 Feb 1908 Georges Virgile
Poulet (1st time) (b. 1859 - d. 193.)
(acting)
18 Feb 1908 - 4 Jul 1910 Victor
Théophile
Liotard
(b. 1858 - d. 1916)
4 Jul 1910 - 16 Jul 1910 Georges
Virgile Poulet (2nd time) (s.a.)
(acting)
16 Jul 1910 - 20 Feb 1913 Camille Lucien
Xavier
Guy
(b. 1860 - d. 1929)
9 May 1912 - 7 Mar 1913 Jean
Louis Georges
Poiret
(b. 1872 - d. 1932)
(1st time)(acting for Guy to 20 Feb 1913)
20 Feb 1913 - 12 Oct 1916 Jean Jules
Émile
Peuvergne
(b. 1849 - d. 1916)
6 Mar 1914 - 13 Jun 1914 Jean Louis
Georges
Poiret
(s.a.)
(2nd time)(acting for Peuvergne)
23 Oct 1915 - 21 Jul 1929 Jean Louis Georges
Poiret
(s.a.)
(3rd time)(acting to 12 Oct 1916)
9 Apr 1919 - 20 Jan 1920 Fernand
Marie Joseph Antoine Lavit (b. 1872 - d. 1955)
(acting
for Poiret)
15 Feb 1922 - 13 Nov 1922 Jules Joseph
Vidal
(b. 1868 - d. 19..)
(acting for Poiret)
26 Mar 1925 - Dec 1925
Robert Paul Marie Simon
(b. 1881 - d. 19..)
(acting
for Poiret)
7 Apr 1927 - 13 Apr 1928 Antoine
Palade (1st time) (b.
1886 - d. 1968)
(acting for Poiret)
13 Apr 1928 - 28 Oct 1928 Jean-Claude
Maurice
Tissier (b.
1878 - d. 19..)
(acting for Poiret)
21 Jul 1929 - 28 Feb 1931 Louis Jean
François
Antonin (b.
1878 - d. 19..)
(acting)
28 Feb 1931 - 1 Jan 1932 Robert
Paul Marie de
Guise
(b. 1872 - d. 1940)
1 Jan 1932 - 7 Mar 1936
Joseph Zébédée Olivier
Vadier (b. 1881 - d.
1963)
13 Jun 1933 - 6 Dec 1933 Antoine
Palade (2nd time)
(s.a.)
(acting for Vadier)
8 Jul 1935 - Nov
1935 Louis Placide
Blacher
(b. 1883 - d. 1960)
(acting for Vadier)
Governors
7 Mar 1936 - 12 Feb 1940 Louis
Placide
Blacher
(s.a.)
(acting to 21 Nov 1936)
4 Sep 1937 - 26 Jan 1938 Pierre Tap
(acting for Blacher) (b. 1884 - d. 1956)
10 Jun 1939 - 1 Oct 1939 Félix
Nicolas Constant Martine (b.
1896 - d. 19..)
(acting
for Blacher)
12 Feb 1940 - 8 Aug 1942 Antoine
Félix Giacobbi
(b. 1891 - d. 1957)
20 Jan 1942 - 21 Jan 1944 Horace Valentin
Croccichia (b. 1888 -
d. 1976)
17 Mar 1944 - 30 Apr 1946 Jacques Georges
Fourneau (acting) (b. 1901 - d. 1956)
30 Apr 1946 - 9 Jan 1948 Édouard
Louis Terrac (acting) (b. 1900 - d.
1956)
15 Jan 1948 - 9 Feb 1951 Roland
Pré
(b. 1907 - d. 1980)
9 Feb 1951 - Apr
1953 Paul Henri Siriex
(b. 1908 - d. 2003)
Apr 1953 - 23 Jun 1955
Jean Paul Parisot
(b. 1901 - d. 1958)
(acting to 2 Dec 1953)
23 Jun 1955 - 3 Jun 1956 Charles
Henri
Bonfils
(b. 1908 - d. 2001)
3 Jun 1956 - 29 Jan 1958 Jean Paul
Ramadier
(b. 1913 - d. 1968)
29 Jan 1958 - 1 Oct 1958 Jean
Mauberna
(acting)
(b. 1904 - d. 1983)
Presidents
2 Oct 1958 - 26 Mar 1984 Ahmed Sékou
Touré
(b. 1922 - d. 1984) PDG
(president
of the Government to 28 Jan 1961)
27 Mar 1984 - 3 Apr 1984 Louis Lansana
Béavogui
(b. 1923 - d. 1984) PDG
(acting to 27 Mar 1984, then interim Head of
government)
3 Apr 1984 - 22 Dec 2008 Lansana
Conté
(b. 1934 - d. 2008) Mil;26-3-91
(president of Military Committee
of
PUP
National Restoration to 5 Apr 1984)
22 Dec 2008 - 23 Dec 2008 Aboubacar Somparé
(interim) (b. 1944)
PUP
23 Dec 2008 - 21 Dec 2010 Moussa Dadis
Camara
(b. 1964)
Mil
(from 22
Aug 2010, Moïse Dadis Camara)
(president of the National Council for
Democracy and Development on 24 Dec 2008;
left the country 4? Dec 2009)
5 Dec 2009 - 21 Dec 2010 Sékouba Konaté
(acting for Camara) (b. 1966)
Mil
21 Dec 2010 -
Alpha Condé
(b.
1938) RPG
Vice President of the Government Council
14 May 1957 - 26 Jul 1958 Ahmed Sékou
Touré
(s.a.)
PDG
President of the Government Council
26 Jul 1958 - 8 Jan 1961 Ahmed
Sékou
Touré
(s.a.)
PDG
Prime ministers
26 Apr 1972 - 3 Apr 1984 Louis
Lansana
Beavogui
(s.a.)
PDG
5 Apr 1984 - 18 Dec 1984 Diarra
Traoré
(b. 1935 - d. 1985) Mil
18 Dec 1984 - 9 Jul 1996 Post
abolished
9 Jul 1996 - 8 Mar 1999 Sidya
Touré
(b.
1945)
Non-party
8 Mar 1999 - 23 Feb 2004 Lamine
Sidimé
(b.
1944)
PUP
23 Feb 2004 - 30 Apr 2004 François
Lonseny
Fall
(b.
1949)
PUP
30 Apr 2004 - 13 Dec 2004 Vacant
13 Dec 2004 - 5 Apr 2006 Cellou Dalein
Diallo
(b.
1952)
PUP
5 Apr 2006 - 9 Feb 2007 Post
abolished
9 Feb 2007 - 1 Mar 2007
Eugène
Camara
(b. 1942 - d. 2019) PUP
1 Mar 2007 - 23 May 2008 Lansana
Kouyaté
(b. 1950)
Non-party
23 May 2008 - 2 Jan 2009 Ahmed Tidiane
Souaré
(b. 1951)
Non-party
2 Jan 2009 - 26 Jan 2010
Kabiné Komara
(b. 1950)
Non-party
26 Jan 2010 - 24 Dec 2010
Jean-Marie Doré
(b. 1938 - d.
2016) UPG
24 Dec 2010 - 29 Dec 2015 Mohamed Said
Fofana
(b. 1952)
Non-party
29 Dec 2015 - 24 May 2018
Mamady
Youla
(b. 1961)
Non-party
24 May 2018
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Ibrahima Kassory
Fofana
(b.
1954)
GPT
Territorial Disputes: Sierra Leone considers
Guinea's definition of the flood plain limits to define
the left bank boundary of the Makona and Moa Rivers
excessive and protests Guinea's continued occupation of
these lands, including the hamlet of Yenga, occupied
since 1998.
Party abbreviations: GPT = Guinée Pour Tous
(Guinea for All, est.2009); PUP = Parti de
l'Unité et du Progrès (Unity and Progress Party,
presidential, pro-Conte, ruling party 1992-2008,
est.1992); RPG = Rassemblement du
Peuple de Guinée (Rally of the People
of Guinea,
anti-PUP, from 2012 RPG-Arc-en-ciel
[RPG-Rainbow], mainly ethnic Malinke, est.1992);
UPG = Union pour le Progrès de la Guinée
(Union for the Progress of Guinea, moderate,
est.1992); Mil = Military;
- Former parties: PDG
= Parti Démocratique de Guinée
(Democratic Party of Guinea, socialist,
African nationalist, de facto state party
1960-1984, [founded as Parti
Démocratique de Guinée-Rassemblement Démocratique
Africain [Democratic Party of Guinea-African
Democratic Rally], 14 May 1947-3 Apr 1984)
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