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Conakry (Sosso: Knakiri) is the capital and largest city of Guinea. Conakry is a port city on the Atlantic Ocean and serves as the economic, financial and cultural center of Guinea with a population of 1,931,184.[1] Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the les de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula.  The population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at 2 million.[2] Even given this uncertainty, Conakry makes up almost a quarter of the population of Guinea.
Conakry   Democracy   Guinea   Military   Photos  
 The New York Times 
Amid Worry, Guinea Begins Transition to Democracy
Tue 26 Jan 2010
| Filed at 5:09 p.m. ET | CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) -- One of the fiercest critics of Guinea's military junta became prime minister Tuesday, a crucial step toward democracy that comes amid worries the coun... (photo: Creative Commons / Ppntori)
Guinea's military junta leader Capt. Moussa "Dadis" Camara, injured in an assassination attempt six weeks ago, is seen at the presidency in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, Friday, Jan. 15, 2010.
Democracy   Guinea   Military   Photos   Politics  
 BBC News 
Guinea leader Camara breaks exile silence
Mon 18 Jan 2010
By Caspar Leighton | BBC West Africa correspondent | The sidelined military leader of Guinea has spoken in public for the first time since he was seriously wounded by an assassination attempt in Decem... (photo: AP / Brahima Ouedraogo)
Woman - Mobile - Cellphone - Texting - Texter - Technology  The Daily Beast  Sun 7 Mar 2010
10 Technologies That Empower Women
| Philanthropy expert Tom Watson on how innovations like text messaging, mobile video, birthing kits, and modern stoves are changing women's lives in the developing world. | Poverty and disease, inequ... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Challenges   Health   Photos   Problem   Technology  
Complete Healthy Meal on table - Fried Fish, Vegetables, Steamed Rice and Banana  DNA India  Sun 7 Mar 2010
What ails us? The answer is in our plate
| Ahmedabad: Early in the last century an intrepid group of doctors from the 'developed' world decided to go and understand the food, living and illnesses of the less developed countries. | Th... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)
Doctors   Food   Health   Illness   Photos  
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Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (Spanish: The Glaciers) is a national park in the Santa Cruz Province, in Argentine Patagonia. It comprises an area of 4459 km[1]. In 1981 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. The Times Of India Thu 4 Mar 2010
Glacier melting a key clue to tracking climate change
SINGAPORE/ANCHORAGE: The world has become far too hot for the aptly named Exit Glacier in Alaska. | Like many low-altitude glaciers, it's steadily melting, shrinking two ... (photo: Creative Commons / Marianocecowski)
Anchorage   Climate   Glacier   Melting   Photos  
Barren dried up land - lack of monsoon - drought - India IRINnews Wed 3 Mar 2010
SYRIA: Severe food shortages in parched eastern region
web | Photo: UN DAMASCUS, 3 March 2010 (IRIN) - Thousands of people have fled drought-affected eastern Syria and those that remain are struggling to survive on limited fo... (photo: WN / Geeta)
Climate   Drought   Food   Photo   Syria  
A girl in an Iraqi refugee camp in Jahrom, Fars Province. She was suffering from a burn wound, but her family did not have the money to treat her. IRINnews Mon 1 Mar 2010
SYRIA: The road to third country resettlement for Iraqi refugees
web | Photo: Julien Lennert/IRIN DAMASCUS, 1 March 2010 (IRIN) - Only a tiny fraction of the estimated two million Iraqi refugees and asylum-seekers in the Middle East en... (photo: Creative Commons)
Humanitarian   Iraq   Mideast   Photos   Syria  
England's head coach, Fabio Capello, during a Workshop at Sun City, South Africa, Tuesday, Feb. 23, 2010 ahead of the FIFA World Cup. Sky Sports Sat 27 Feb 2010
Shawcross gets England call
| Fabio Capello has included Ryan Shawcross, Leighton Baines and Stephen Warnock in his squad for England's friendly against Egypt next week. | Shawcross has been rewarde... (photo: AP / Denis Farrell)
Capello   England   Football   Photos   Sport  
Euphorbia pulcherrima, commonly named poinsettia flower Philadelphia Daily News Fri 26 Feb 2010
A world of flowers
Our debt to globe-trotting plant explorers will be plain at the flower show. Page XX | By Ginny Smith This year's flower show theme - "Passport to the World" - ... (photo: GFDL / SriMesh)
Flowers   Philadelphia   Photos   Plants   Show  


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