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Guinea

Just your average Celtic-Guinean band
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The storied life of a northern slave: Venture Smith
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Former president of Guinea found guilty in massacre trial
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The storied life of a northern slave: Venture Smith
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french soccer players at the world cup
Sports
French national soccer players of immigrant ancestry face harsher critics at the World Cup
Arts, Culture & Media
Refugee All Stars
A doctor in protective clothing in the Ebola Training Academy in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Dec. 16, 2014.
Health
A new Ebola vaccine may be ‘up to 100 percent effective’
Ebola Survivor Gorma Dolo, holds an ebola free health certificate at her house in Freeman Reserve, Liberia.
Health
Ebola survivors face lingering health problems
Health workers rest outside a quarantine zone at a Red Cross facility in the town of Koidu, Kono district in Eastern Sierra Leone December 19, 2014. Sierra Leone, neighbouring Guinea and Liberia was at the heart of the world's worst recorded outbreak of E
Health
The day so many Guineans were waiting for is finally here
A health worker injects a woman with an Ebola vaccine during a trial in Liberia
Health
Experimental Ebola vaccine is ‘highly efficacious and safe’ — but late
Frontline's "Outbreak"
Health
Inside the troubled early days of the Ebola response
Nurse Kaci Hickox and her boyfriend, Ted Wilbur, speak with the media outside of their home in Fort Kent, Maine, on October 31, 2014. Hickox defied quarantine orders in New Jersey and Maine after returning from West Africa but testing negative for Ebola.
Health
Calm down — America is officially Ebola-free
A satirical map created by Anthony England to show people around the world how little of Africa has been affected by the Ebola outbreak.
Health
Twitter snark helps put the geography of Ebola in stark relief
An endangered mountain gorilla rests inside a forest in a Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Rwanada.
Health
We still don’t know for sure how Ebola reached humans
Soldiers from the U.S. Army put on one of three pairs of protective gloves during their final session of personal protective equipment training.
Health
How ‘big data’ could help stop the spread of Ebola
Fruit bats like the ones pictured here are often key vectors for diseases like Ebola, and disturbing their habitats may have made humans more vulnerable.
Environment
Here’s how cutting down West African trees made us vulnerable to Ebola
A sign is seen at the border with Guinea in Kouremale, October 2, 2014. The worst Ebola outbreak on record was first confirmed in Guinea in March but it has since spread across most of Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 3,300 people, overwhelming
Belief
The Ebola outbreak quiets an important Muslim holiday in Guinea
A health worker, wearing head-to-toe protective gear, offers water to a woman with Ebola at a treatment center for infected persons at Kenema Government Hospital in Kenema, Sierra Leone.
Health
Why isn’t the rest of the world helping fight the Ebola outbreak?
Residents in an Ebola quarantine area in the West Point of Monrovia, Liberia, complain to a security officer as they wait for their relatives to bring them food and essentials on August 23, 2014.
Health
Ebola survivors return to lives of fear and ostracism
The monster mouth doorway at Lagunita
Global Scan
An ancient lost Mayan city reappears in Mexico
Liberian soldiers check people for Ebola
Health
How fear is hampering the response to the Ebola crisis
Fruit bats are seen for sale at a food market in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo.
Development
As the Ebola crisis rages, West African villagers are warned away from fruit bats
Nurse Monia Sayah of Doctors Without Borders explains to a hospital medical team in Guéckédou, Guinea, how the Ebola virus is transmitted.
Health
The story of one Guinean man who survived Ebola
Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki was left off the invitation list to the US-Africa Leaders Summit in Washington, DC.
Global Politics
Eritrea’s president wasn’t invited to Washington, but does it matter?
A Chinese doctor checks the temperature of a passenger on a flight from Hong Kong to Shanghai during the SARS outbreak in 2003. There are now fears that Ebola could spread via travel from West Africa to the rest of the world.
Medicine
Put away the plastic sheets and duct tape — there’s no Ebola outbreak coming to the US
Medical staff take a blood sample from a suspected Ebola patient at the government hospital in Kenema, July 10, 2014.
Health & Medicine
Tensions mount between healthcare workers and Ebola-infected communities in West Africa
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Arts, Culture & Media
How guinea pig, an Andean delicacy, is making its way onto dinner plates in the US
Environment
Should we harm captive great apes in order to save wild ones?
Dr. William Fischer
Health & Medicine
This doctor is battling on the frontlines of the ebola crisis in Guinea
Rose Komono poses for a picture at a health clinic after overcoming the Ebola virus in Gueckedou, Guinea. In April, Komono became the first victim to have beaten the disease in the region of Gueckedou, which has borne the brunt of the deaths in the impove
Health & Medicine
This catchy West African dance tune carries a public health message about Ebola
Rose Komono poses for a picture at a health clinic after overcoming the Ebola virus in Gueckedou, Guinea. In April, Komono became the first victim to have beaten the disease in the region of Gueckedou, which has borne the brunt of the deaths in the impove
Health & Medicine
This catchy West African dance tune carries a public health message about Ebola
Iron ore is unloaded from the Star Fortune bulk carrier at Rizhao Port, one of China's biggest ports for importing the commodity, in Shandong province, in March 2010.
Business, Economics and Jobs
How is China expanding its economic empire in Africa?
News of the spread of the ebola virus has residents of Guinea's capital Conakry on edge.
Health & Medicine
Why the World Health Organization is taking the ebola outbreak in Guinea ‘very seriously’
Dwayne R. Rodgers, an independent artist and curator in Brooklyn, took this photograph of Amadou Diallo's funeral procession in New York City in 1999. Rodgers was photographing a series on police brutality in the city.
Conflict & Justice
How the legacy of Amadou Diallo lives on in New York’s immigrant community
In Africa, Malians forced to flee, frustrated by lack of progress
Health & Medicine
Eradicating Guinea worm disease
Global Hit
Sekouba Bambino and his ‘Griot’s Craft’
Global Politics
Buried Secrets: Who Controls Guinea’s Richest Natural Resource?
Arts, Culture & Media
DJ Tom Schnabel Pays Tribute to Two Late African Artists
Arts, Culture & Media
Sia Tolno: A Rising Singer From Sierra Leone
BirdNote® – Birds of Paradise
Paupa New Guinea: Natural Resource Conflict Turns To War
Audience Letters
Animal Update
New Guinea Mine Mess
Arts, Culture & Media
Prehistoric Wisdom Tooth Reveals New Branch of Human Family Tree
Global Politics
Guinean military dissolves the government after President’s death
Arts, Culture & Media
The Mandingo Ambassadors
Conflict & Justice
Guinea election interview
Global Politics
All eyes on Guinea
Global Politics
Guineans in New York City look toward home
Conflict & Justice
Massacre in Guinea
Conflict & Justice
Who rules Guinea now?
Arts, Culture & Media
Global Hit – Les Amazones de Guinee