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unusual facts about Hotel de France, Conakry



2009 Guinea protest

The 2009 Guinea protest was an opposition rally in Conakry, Guinea on Monday, 28 September 2009, with about 50,000 participants protesting against the junta government that came to power after the Guinean coup d'état of December 2008.

Acliceratia beddomei

The type specimen was retrieved in the Atlantic Ocean off Conakry, Guinea.

António de Spínola

At the same time, he continued to practice a range of initiatives in the War, from clandestine meetings (he met secretly with the President of Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, at one point) to armed incursions to neighbouring states (such as Operation Green Sea, which saw the assault by Portuguese Army Commandos into Conakry, Guinea).

Ballamodou Conde

Ballamodou "Balla" Conde (born 18 October 1973 in Conakry) is a retired Guinean footballer, who played as a midfielder.

Conakry

Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904 and prospered as an export port, particularly after a (now closed) railway to Kankan opened the large scale export of groundnut from the interior.

At two million inhabitants, it is far and away the largest city in Guinea, making up almost a quarter of the nation's population and making it more than four times bigger than its nearest rival, Kankan.

Donald R. Norland

He was later deputy chief of mission and chargé d'affaires at in Conakry, Guinea.

Economy of Guinea

Foreign investments outside Conakry are entitled to especially favorable conditions.

Economy of Mali

Gold collected in the towns is sold on—with almost no regulation or oversight—to larger merchant houses in Bamako or Conakry, and eventually to smelters in Europe.

Ernest Noirot

In 1903 Noirot and Boubou both obtained land concessions near Conakry.

George Roberts Andrews

He was political officer in Stockholm from 1964–1967, chief of the political section in Dakar (1967–1970), chargé d'affaires in Conakry (1970), and consul general in Strasbourg (1970–1971).

Human trafficking in Sierra Leone

In January 2008, the Sierra Leonean Embassy in Conakry received from the Guinean government four Sierra Leonean women whom Guinean authorities suspected of trafficking children to Sierra Leone, and transported them back to Sierra Leone.

Il va pleuvoir sur Conakry

But his choice meets with stiff opposition from his strict Muslim father Karamako, who is the guardian of the ancestral tradition of their village as well as imam of Conakry.

John Moray Stuart-Young

He later spent many years in Africa, in such diverse places as Sierra Leone, Grand Bassa in Liberia, Conakry in French Guinea and later, Onitsha on the Niger River.

Mathieu Matégot

Matégot furnished or decorated buildings such as the Hotel de France in Conakry, Guinea, the Drugstrore Publicis in Paris and the Maison de l'ORTF in Paris (1962).

Moussa Sy

Moussa Sy (12 July 1979 in Conakry) is a Guinean football Striker with the Long Island Rough Riders of the United Soccer Leagues.

Roberts International Airport

In the late 1970s and into the early 1980s, the airport became Pan Am's principal African hub, with a non-stop service from New York JFK connecting at Robertsfield to such destinations as Dakar, Accra, Abidjan, Lagos, and Conakry, among others, and continuing on to Nairobi and even at times Johannesburg, so that for many years virtually every Pan Am passenger to Africa passed through Robertsfield.

Robinson McIlvaine

Two days after he arrived as Ambassador in Conakry, Guinea, McIlvaine and all other Americans in the country were put under house arrest.

Rolland-Pilain

French auto-makers set great store by endurance events in Africa during the 1920s, and the company received much positive publicity from the "Tranin-Duverne" marathon drive undertaken from Conakry to Djibouti using a 10HP Rolland-Pilain.

Sona Tata Condé

The title track, Simbo, is a love song to her husband and like many of her other songs, is not only sung in her native Malinke, but in other languages used in Guinea's capital, Conakry, including the Fula, Susu, French and English languages.

Williams Sassine

Williams Sassine (1944, Kankan, Guinea – February 9, 1997, Conakry, Guinea) was a Guinean novelist who wrote in French.

Yaguine Koita and Fodé Tounkara

Yaguine Koïta (born September 25, 1984) and Fodé Tounkara (born April 6, 1985) were stowaways who froze to death on a Sabena Airlines Airbus A330 (Flight 520) flying from Conakry, Guinea, to Brussels, Belgium, on July 28, 1999.


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