The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with the AngloGold Ashanti Mining Company will fund the Siguiri Agricultural Development Activity (SADA). A Memorandum of Understanding between the two agencies was signed on Wednesday, November 6th in Conakry. The Siguiri Agricultural Development Activity will foster sustainable, long-term private sector engagement in collaboration with the AngloGold Ashanti mining company’s Guinea subsidiary, SAG.
Before the Ebola outbreak in 2014, state run health facilities in Guinea suffered from neglect. Particularly evident in poor, rural areas, this resulted in poor-quality services and treatment. Community members lacked faith in the public system. Those who were better-off resorted to using privately run clinics. When the epidemic occurred, the facilities were all but abandoned.
Rabies is an inevitably fatal zoonosis that causes mortality in humans around the world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) rabies causes at least 59 000 deaths per year in the world, especially in Africa and Asia.
Saran Kanté lives in Kankan, rural Guinea. In March 2019, she was delighted to become the mother of a set of twins. But her joy was short-lived because the twins Fanta and Oumou were low weight babies; they weighed 1330g and 1380g respectively. The normal weight of a newborn should be above 2500g.
The agricultural sector remains the niche for creating employment and improving the living standards of the Guinean people. Transforming small-scale agriculture from subsistence to innovative, commercially oriented and modern agriculture will achieve the aim of offering multiple livelihoods and creating employment opportunities for many youth in search of their first employment in Guinea.
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Last updated: December 10, 2019
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