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Lauriane Doumbouya. v. t. e. Mamady Doumbouya ( N'Ko: ߡߊ߬ߡߊߘߌ߫ ߘߎ߲ߓߎߦߊ߫, born 4 March 1980) is a Guinean military officer serving as the interim president of Guinea since 1 October 2021. Doumbouya led a coup d'état on 5 September 2021 that overthrew the previous president, Alpha Condé. He is a member of the Special Forces ...
The Fula, Fulani, or Fulɓe people [a] is an ethnic group in Sahara, Sahel and West Africa, widely dispersed across the region. [22] Inhabiting many countries, they live mainly in West Africa and northern parts of Central Africa, South Sudan, Darfur, and regions near the Red Sea coast in Sudan.
The Mandinka or Malinke [note 1] are a West African ethnic group primarily found in southern Mali, the Gambia, southern Senegal and eastern Guinea. [19] Numbering about 11 million, [20] [21] they are the largest subgroup of the Mandé peoples and one of the largest ethnic-linguistic groups in Africa. They speak the Manding languages in the ...
BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces an award-winning bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa, Swahili and French. The series focuses on topics that are of interest and ...
The Guinea national football team ( French: Équipe de football de Guinée) represents Guinea in men's international football and it is controlled by the Guinean Football Federation. They have never qualified for the FIFA World Cup finals, and their best finish in the Africa Cup of Nations was runners-up in 1976.
Mohamed Ali Camara (born 28 August 1997) is a Guinean professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Swiss Super League club Young Boys. Camara is nicknamed Piqué , named after his footballing idol Gerard Piqué .
The Guinea soccer team has appealed to fans to “celebrate carefully” after several supporters were killed in traffic accidents back home following the team's win over Gambia at the Africa Cup ...
Deaths. 2,535. An epidemic of Ebola virus disease in Guinea from 2013 to 2016 represents the first ever outbreak of Ebola in a West African country. Previous outbreaks have been confined to several countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. [2] The epidemic, which began with the death of a two-year-old boy, was part of a larger Ebola virus epidemic in ...