Guinea Current Affairs, GK & News

India extends LOC to Guinea

December 5, 2019

India extended Line of Credits(LOC) to Guinea on Thursday, 5th December 2019 during the visit of Guinea’s Minister of Foreign Affairs and Guineans Abroad, Mamadi Toure to India from 2-5 December 2019. Minister of External Affairs, S.Jaishankar held bilateral discussions with Mamadi Toure in New Delhi followed by the signing of LOC: 1)Signature for LOC ..

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Macky Sall re-elected as Senegal’s President

March 2, 2019

President of Senegal Macky Sall has won the re-election with 58.27% of votes cast. More than 50% votes to a candidate imply that there would be no second round voting under the election system of Senegal. Senegal Senegal lies on the west coast of Africa. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania in the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast, ..

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New Ebola vaccine may be up to 100% effective: WHO

December 24, 2016

The World Health Organization (WHO) has expressed confidence that a prototype vaccine for Ebola called rVSV-ZEBOV may be 100% effective in protecting against the deadly virus. The vaccine was initially developed in Canada by public health authorities before being taken over by pharmaceutical giant Merck. Key Facts Earlier in a major experimental human clinical trial of ..

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WHO declares Guinea Ebola free

December 30, 2015

World Health Organization (WHO), a UN health agency has declared Guinea Ebola-free after no new cases were reported. Now the country enters into 90-day period of heightened surveillance of WHO. In Guinea, the deadly disease had killed more than 2,500 people and had completely shattered country’s economy and country’s health and education sectors. Criteria for ..

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WHO declares Liberia Ebola-free

May 10, 2015

World Health Organization (WHO), a U.N. health agency has declared Liberia Ebola-free. WHO has hailed Liberia’s Ebola eradication efforts as an enormous development in the long crisis and monumental achievement as the virus has killed more than 4,716 people in the country alone. Now, Liberia’s neighbous Guinea and Sierra Leone are only two countries fighting ..

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Peter Jan Graaff of Netherlands appointed as head of UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response

April 27, 2015

United Nations (UN) has nominated Peter Jan Graaff of the Netherlands as the new chief of UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER). He will replace Mauritanian diplomat Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed who was recently appointed as special UN envoy for Yemen. With this appointment, Peter Jan Graaff  will work closely with Special Envoy on Ebola ..

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