Guéckédou
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| Coordinates | 8 ° 34 ′ N , 10 ° 8 ′ W | ||
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| Country | Guinea | ||
| Nzérékoré | |||
| prefecture | Guéckédou | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | GN GU | ||
| Residents | 62,372 (2014) | ||
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Guéckédou (also Guékédou or Guéckédougou ) is a city in the south of the West African Guinea with about 62,000 inhabitants. It is located in the Nzérékoré region and is the capital of the Guéckédou prefecture of the same name .
geography
Guéckédou is located in Forest Guinea , in the southeast of Guinea, a few kilometers from the borders with Liberia and Sierra Leone .
history
The majority of the inhabitants of Guéckédou belong to the Kissi ethnic group . There is a state hospital in the city and a Roman Catholic missionary station since 1951.
The city has been affected by refugee flows from Sierra Leone and Liberia since 1990. At times, the fighting in the context of the Sierra-Leonean (1991–2003) and Liberian civil war (1989–2003) also spread to Guéckédou.
In January 2014, the first woman infected with the Ebola virus came to Guéckédou. Since then the local hospital has been expanded. But after the Ebola epidemic subsided, foreign aid payments also fell, so the budget and hospital services had to be cut again. In addition, the city suffers from the personal, social and economic consequences of the epidemic.
Population development
The following overview shows the population by area since the 1983 census.
| year | Residents |
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| 1983 (census) | 19,039 |
| 1996 (census) | 79,140 |
| 2014 (census) | 62,372 |
economy
The city has a large weekly market with traders from all over southern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Ivory Coast . Regional agricultural products such as rice, coffee, kola nuts and palm oil are also offered.
Sons and daughters
- Marcel Bama Mato (1930–1971), politician, Minister of the Interior of Guinea
- Alexis Aly Tagbino (* 1972), Roman Catholic clergyman, auxiliary bishop in Kankan
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b https://www. britica.com/place/Gueckedou
- ↑ Fabian Urech: Suffering from Ebola. The disease haunts the country of origin. The virus lives on in the mind. Four years after the Ebola epidemic, the people in Guinea, where the disaster originated, are still suffering from the consequences. Would the country be prepared for the virus to return? NZZ Zurich December 8, 2017, pp. 49–51
- ↑ Guinea: Regions & Cities - Population Statistics, Maps, Charts, Weather and Web Information. Retrieved January 6, 2019 .
