Facts About Africa Guinea Africa

Guinea or Republic of Guinea is a country in West Africa, which was formerly known as French Guinea. Conakry is the capital and the largest city of French Guinea and also the seat of all the Government agencies and departments. The total population of Guinea is about 10 million comprising of 24 ethnic groups including Fula, Susu and Mandinka. French is the official language and Guinea Frank is the currency of Guinea. It is the place where the Niger River originates and moves eastward further in other regions of African Continent.





Guinea is rich in different type of minerals and natural resources and it has almost 25% of the world's bauxite reserves besides lots of gold, diamond, uranium and other metals. Apart from the metals, Guinea is also coming on the radar of oil exploration and it is expected that Guinea has the potential to supply up to 30% of America's oil requirement. Besides the mineral resources, Guinea is also rich in agriculture and it exports banana, pineapples, coffee, peanuts and palm oil. Like many other West African countries, Guinea is also rich in its musical traditions and culture, Bembeya Jazz being the most notable.

Facts About Africa Problems in Africa

Africa is a continent that has been facing several problems including poverty, absence of democracy, unemployment, poor facilities of education, lack of infrastructure, child abuse and high rate of infant mortality, high levels of colonialism, corruption, crime and many other problems on the social and economic fronts. Although some improvements have been witnessed during the last 3-4 decades but still the problems in Africa are much more than in any other continent of the world.





Despite it being the richest continent in terms of mineral resources and the highest production of precious metals like gold, Africa continues to reel under extreme poverty and the lowest growth rate in the world. Unemployment, pollution, acute power shortages, spread of some of the highly contagious and dangerous diseases such as TB, Malaria, and HIV, lack of proper sanitation facilities, crime, shortage of skilled labor, lack of basic education, corruption and high rate of crime, are some of the old and never-ending problems in Africa. Africa's food problems and lack of proper and sufficient medicines keep on adding to the burgeoning problems in Africa.