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TransportationAirports World Ranking: 144
16 (2012)
Airports - with paved runways
Total 4
Over 3,047 m 1 1,524 to 2,437 m 3 (2012) Airports - with unpaved runways
Total 12
1,524 to 2,437 m 7 914 to 1,523 m 3 Under 914 m 2 (2012) Railways World Ranking: 86
Total 1,185 km
Standard gauge 238 km 1.435-m gauge Narrow gauge 947 km 1.000-m gauge (2008) Roadways World Ranking: 83
Total 44,348 km
Paved 4,342 km Unpaved 40,006 km (2003) Waterways World Ranking: 54
1,300 km (navigable by shallow-draft native craft in the northern part of the Niger system) (2011) Ports and terminals
Conakry, Kamsar
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GPS points from Guinea (Conakry)
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Guinea has had a history of authoritarian rule since gaining its independence from France in 1958. Lansana CONTE came to power in 1984 when the military seized the government after the death of the first president, Sekou TOURE. Guinea did not hold democratic elections until 1993 when Gen. CONTE (head of the military government) was elected president of the civilian government. He was reelected in 1998 and again in 2003, though all the polls were marred by irregularities. History repeated itself in December 2008 when following President CONTE's death, Capt. Moussa Dadis CAMARA led a military coup, seizing power and suspending the constitution. His unwillingness to yield to domestic and international pressure to step down led to heightened political tensions that culminated in September 2009 when presidential guards opened fire on an opposition rally killing more than 150 people, and in early December 2009 when CAMARA was wounded in an assassination attempt and evacuated to Morocco and subsequently to Burkina Faso. A transitional government led by General Sekouba KONATE held democratic elections in 2010 and Alpha CONDE was elected president in the country's first free and fair elections since independence.