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Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) 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 centre of Guinea. Its population was estimated in 2009 at 1,667,864. Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the Îles de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula.
The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at 2 million. Conakry is thought to contain almost a quarter of the population of Guinea.
According to a legend, the name of the city comes from the fusion of the name "Cona", a wine producer of the Baga people, and the word "nakiri", which means in Sosso the other bank or side.
Conakry was originally settled on the small Tombo Island and later spread to the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula, a 36-kilometer (22 mi) long stretch of land 0.2 to 6 kilometers (660 to 19,690 ft) wide. The city was essentially founded after Britain ceded the island to France in 1887. In 1885 the two island villages of Conakry and Boubinet had fewer than 500 inhabitants. Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904 and prospered as an export port, particularly after a railway (now closed) to Kankan opened up the interior of the country for the large-scale export of groundnut.
Le train "Conakry Express", qui relie la capitale guinéenne à sa banlieue, reprend cette semaine ses rotations après dix mois d'arrêt. La liaison avait été interrompue en janvier pour permettre au groupe russe Rusal de rattraper un retard dans l'acheminement des cargaisons de bauxite.
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Une nouvelle ligne de chemin de fer en Guinée à l'horizon 2021. Objectif : transporter la bauxite du gisement de Santou au port de Dapilon. C'est l'annonce du consortium international SMB-Winning, responsable de ce projet d'une valeur de trois milliards de dollars (environ 2,7 milliards d'euros) . Ce projet, vise d'abord l'exploitation de nouveaux gisements de bauxite dans la région de Santou et Houda (à 250 km au nord de Conakry). Il est question ensuite de transporter et transformer le minera… LIRE L’ARTICLE: http://fr.africanews.com/2019/04/27/guinee-un-nouveau-chemin-de-fer-en-vue La chaîne YouTube d' Africanews vous apporte votre dose quotidienne d’ informations traitant de l’actualité africaine et internationale, une sélection faite par les Africains, pour les Africains. Africanews...
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Depuis que les deux-roues sont interdits de se rendre dans le quartier des ministères, les altercations sont devenues de plus en plus fréquentes entre conducteurs et policiers. LIRE L’ARTICLE : https://fr.africanews.com/2021/06/03/guinee-conakry-en-guerre-contre-ses-motos-taxi Abonnez-vous à notre chaine Youtube https://www.youtube.com/c/africanewsfr?sub_confirmation=1 et recevez chaque jour le meilleur de l’actualité panafricaine. Africanews est disponible en Français et en Anglais. Site web : fr.africanews.com Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.fr/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews #AfNews
Conakry (Sosso: Kɔnakiri) 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 centre of Guinea. Its population was estimated in 2009 at 1,667,864. Originally situated on Tombo Island, one of the Îles de Los, it has since spread up the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula.
The current population of Conakry is difficult to ascertain, although the U.S. Bureau of African Affairs has estimated it at 2 million. Conakry is thought to contain almost a quarter of the population of Guinea.
According to a legend, the name of the city comes from the fusion of the name "Cona", a wine producer of the Baga people, and the word "nakiri", which means in Sosso the other bank or side.
Conakry was originally settled on the small Tombo Island and later spread to the neighboring Kaloum Peninsula, a 36-kilometer (22 mi) long stretch of land 0.2 to 6 kilometers (660 to 19,690 ft) wide. The city was essentially founded after Britain ceded the island to France in 1887. In 1885 the two island villages of Conakry and Boubinet had fewer than 500 inhabitants. Conakry became the capital of French Guinea in 1904 and prospered as an export port, particularly after a railway (now closed) to Kankan opened up the interior of the country for the large-scale export of groundnut.