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Camara wrestles after Guinea nearly pulled out of Olympics

By Cliff Brunt Aug. 05, 2021 04:52 AM EDT

Guinean wrestler Fatoumata Yarie Camara combs her hair at her house in Conakry, Guinea, Wednesday July 21, 2021. A West African wrestler's dream of competing in the Olympics has come down to a plane ticket. Fatoumata Yarie Camara is the only Guinean athlete to qualify for these Games. She was ready for Tokyo, but confusion over travel reigned for weeks. The 25-year-old and her family can't afford it. Guinean officials promised a ticket, but at the last minute announced a withdrawal from the Olympics over COVID-19 concerns. Under international pressure, Guinea reversed its decision. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream

By Gerald Imray, Boubacar Diallo And Trisha Thomas Jul. 29, 2021 02:46 AM EDT

Women wash clothes at the house of Guinean wrestler Fatoumata Yarie Camara in Conakry, Guinea, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. A West African wrestler's dream of competing in the Olympics has come down to a plane ticket. Fatoumata Yarie Camara is the only Guinean athlete to qualify for these Games. She was ready for Tokyo, but confusion over travel reigned for weeks. The 25-year-old and her family can't afford it. Guinean officials promised a ticket, but at the last minute announced a withdrawal from the Olympics over COVID-19 concerns. Under international pressure, Guinea reversed its decision. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

Denied ticket over COVID, Guinean Olympian clings to dream

By Gerald Imray, Boubacar Diallo And Trisha Thomas Jul. 29, 2021 02:34 AM EDT

Fatoumata Yarie Camara, a Guinean freestyle wrestler scheduled to compete in the Tokyo Olympics, sits at her home in Conakry, Guinea Wednesday July 21, 2021. The West African country of Guinea has reversed an earlier decision to pull out of the Olympics and will send a delegation of five athletes to the Tokyo Games. Minister of Sports Sanoussy Bantama Sow made the announcement Thursday, July 22, 2021 after national and international outcries that followed an earlier declaration that Guinea would not send athletes to Tokyo, blaming the coronavirus and its variants. Camara was one of the five athletes affected by the decision. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

Guinea reverses decision to pull out of Tokyo Olympics

By Boubacar Diallo And Carley Petesch Jul. 22, 2021 08:18 AM EDT

Guinea declares end to latest Ebola outbreak that killed 12

By Carley Petesch Jun. 19, 2021 08:59 AM EDT
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Guinea has declared an end to an Ebola outbreak that emerged in February and killed 12 people, according to the...

FILE - This undated colorized transmission electron micrograph file image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows an Ebola virus virion. The World Health Organization said Thursday Feb. 18, 2021 that it will be sending more than 11,000 Ebola vaccinations to the West African nation of Guinea in the coming days to combat the recent epidemic of the deadly hemorrhagic fever that has been declared in the country's southern N'Zerekore region. (Frederick Murphy/CDC via AP, File)

WHO says more than 11,000 Ebola vaccines will go to Guinea

By Carley Petesch Feb. 18, 2021 08:30 AM EST

FILE- In this Nov. 20, 2014 file photo, an MSF Ebola heath worker is sprayed as he leaves the contaminated zone at the Ebola treatment centre in Gueckedou, Guinea. Guinea has officially declared an Ebola epidemic Monday Feb. 15, 2021, after at least three people have died and others have been infected in the West African nation. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay-File)

Guinea declares Ebola epidemic, neighboring countries act

By Carley Petesch Feb. 15, 2021 11:31 AM EST

Guinea confirms 3 dead from Ebola, first cases since 2016

By Boubacar Diallo Feb. 14, 2021 09:25 AM EST
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Health officials in Guinea on Sunday confirmed that at least three people have died from Ebola there, the first cases declared since it...

Israeli businessman and diamond-magnate, Beny Steinmetz, arrives to Geneva's courthouse for the reading of his verdict for alleged corruption of Guinean public officials and forgery documents, in Geneva, Switzerland, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

Israeli diamond tycoon convicted in Swiss corruption trial

By Jamey Keaten Jan. 22, 2021 11:42 AM EST

Guinea uses Russian COVID-19 vaccine on some officials

By Boubacar Diallo Dec. 31, 2020 06:57 AM EST
CONAKRY, Guinea (AP) — Guinea began vaccinating against COVID-19 with the Russian Sputnik V vaccine on an experimental basis, starting with government...

Pregnant women sing and dance before being assisted in a health unit where several women look for assistance with prenatal care in Koidu, district of Kono, Sierra Leone, Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Many African, Asian families marry off daughters amid virus

By Krista Larson Dec. 14, 2020 03:09 AM EST

Liverpool's Sadio Mane controls the ball during the English Premier League soccer match between Manchester City and Liverpool at the Etihad stadium in Manchester, England, Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020. (Clive Brunskill/Pool via AP)

Mane leads Senegal to African Cup qualification

By Gerald Imray Nov. 15, 2020 03:19 PM EST

Dr. Amer Sattar, who worked in Guinea during the Ebola epidemic that began in 2014 and spread through West Africa ultimately killing more than 11,000 people over two years, speaks during an interview at his office in Conakry, Guinea on Tuesday, June 9, 2020. Sattar says the 2020 coronavirus crisis is a chance for international donors and governments alike to invest in the long term “so that we’re ready for the next pandemic.” (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

Scarce medical oxygen worldwide leaves many gasping for life

By Lori Hinnant, Carley Petesch And Boubacar Diallo Jun. 24, 2020 04:42 AM EDT

Medical workers offload cylinders of oxygen at the Donka public hospital where coronavirus patients are treated in Conakry, Guinea, on Wednesday, May 20, 2020. Before the coronavirus crisis, the hospital in the capital was going through 20 oxygen cylinders a day. By May, the hospital was at 40 a day and rising, according to Dr. Billy Sivahera of the aid group Alliance for International Medical Action. Oxygen is the the facility's fastest-growing expense, and the daily deliveries of cylinders are taking their toll on budgets. (AP Photo/Youssouf Bah)

Scarce medical oxygen worldwide leaves many gasping for life

By Lori Hinnant, Carley Petesch And Boubacar Diallo Jun. 24, 2020 03:06 AM EDT

In this photo taken Friday, May 15, 2020, a follower of the Senegalese Mouride brotherhood, an order of Sufi Islam, films with his smartphone as he and others practice social distancing as they attend Muslim Friday prayers at West Africa's largest mosque the Massalikul Jinaan, in Dakar, Senegal. A growing number of mosques are reopening across West Africa even as confirmed coronavirus cases soar, as governments find it increasingly difficult to keep them closed during the holy month of Ramadan. (AP Photo/Sylvain Cherkaoui)

As mosques reopen in West Africa, COVID-19 fears grow

By Krista Larson May. 17, 2020 04:55 AM EDT