At a glance: Guinea
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World Breastfeeding Week launches in Guinea
DONKA, Guinea, 4 August 2009 – Donka Hospital was the site of the launch of World Breastfeeding Week on 1 August in Guinea. This year’s theme is: ‘Breastfeeding, a Vital Emergency Response. Are You Ready?’
A synchronized campaign to eradicate polio in Guinea and neighbouring countries
CONAKRY, Guinea, 30 July 2009 – Guinea was polio-free from 2004 through 2008. As a close neighbour of countries where the virus is still present, Guinea was still eligible for mass polio immunization campaigns every year, but it was on its way to being certified as a polio-free.
Motorcycle ambulances helping to save lives in Guinea
KISSIDOUGOU, Guinea, 22 June 2009 – With the help of a motorcycle ambulance, Marie Tounkara was rushed to the emergency room to give birth to her baby boy. It was a close call, as she required a caesarean section to save the baby’s life.
UNICEF working to teach HIV/AIDS prevention to young people in Guinea
CONAKRY, Guinea, 26 March 2009 – Nene Gallé Barry sells charcoal in a very poor area of the Koloma quarter in Conakry, the capital of Guinea. She is 18 now, but left her home village 4 years ago to earn a living in the city. She has a boyfriend and is sexually active but, until recently, she had never heard of AIDS and had never seen or used a condom.
Committing to end female genital mutilation in Guinea
CONAKRY, Guinea, 23 February 2009 – Women in Guinea took an important step forward recently as the country observed ‘Zero Tolerance Day’ against female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) at Guinea’s ‘Palace of the People’ in Conakry.
A courageous woman from Guinea tells her story and fights violence against women
CONAKRY, Guinea, 14 November 2008 – Dyaritaou Bah, 23, was married at the age of 14 to a man who was 30 years older that herself. She was sent to live in Europe while her husband sent a stipend back to her family every month.
Guineans mobilize for water, sanitation, hygiene and handwashing
CONAKRY, Guinea, 30 October 2008 – Global Handwashing Day was celebrated on 28 October in Guinea with handwashing ceremonies in schools across the country.
UNICEF and ECHO save Guinean children's lives with Plumpy’nut project
CONAKRY, Guinea, 23 July 2008 – Mamadou Cissé is two years old, but until recently, he weighed less than a third of what children his age should weigh. Approximately 7 per cent of children under the age of five in Guinea are severely underweight.
UNICEF and partners support local community schools for Guinean girls and boys
CONAKRY, Guinea, 29 October 2007 – The people of Moribaya, 50 km from Conakry, have banded together to build a school for their children – one of the so-called ‘warehouse schools’ that provide elementary education to Guinean girls and boys, and are supported by UNICEF and the state government.
Centres provide a second chance for education in Guinea
CONAKRY, Guinea, 19 October 2007 – Although they may have different backgrounds, students who attend the UNICEF-supported Nafa centre in Conakry share a common bond – they are all getting a second chance to attend school.
Civil unrest in Guinea leads to rapes of women and children
CONAKRY, Guinea, 5 March 2007 – When Adelaid’s mother had to leave Conakry last month to forage for kola nuts, she left her in the care of an uncle to protect her from the violence that had overtaken Guinea’s capital city.
Amid unrest in Guinea, boy shot while playing football
CONAKRY, Guinea, 23 February 2007 – Mamadou Sidi Diallo woke up one morning last month thinking only about the football game he was going to play that day with his friends. By that night he was lying in a hospital bed, paralyzed on the left side by a bullet from uniformed men who shot at him and his friends on the field.
Poverty called ‘root cause’ of widespread demonstrations in Guinea
NEW YORK, USA, 14 June 2006 – A collapsing economy that is especially dangerous for children has ignited a massive strike in Conakry, the capital of Guinea.
Football boosts girls’ education
LABE, Guinea, 6 April 2005 – Guinean girls turned out for a national football tournament this week in a bid to beat the boys at their own game and boost girls’ education.
Concern in West Africa as locust crisis worsens
DAKAR/NEW YORK, 3 September 2004 – A 12-country emergency meeting in Dakar, Senegal has decided to use national armed forces to help combat the devastating spread of desert locusts in West Africa.
