Upon independence, declared in 1973 and recognised in 1974, the name of its capital, Bissau, was added to the country's name to prevent confusion with Guinea ( formerly French Guinea ).
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There are, moreover, the Prefectures of Lower Nigeria, French Guinea, Lower Congo ( Landana ), and missions at Bata, in Spanish West Africa, and at Kindou, in the Congo Independent State.
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She sailed to Algiers and from there to Dakar on 13 March . " PuBaski " left Dakar for Freetown, Sierra Leone, and Konakry, French Guinea, returning to Dakar in early April.
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The Ariane-5's lift-off from the European Space Agency's base in Kourou, late Thursday French Guinea time, came seven months after the program was grounded because of the flawed launch of two telecommunications satellites.
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From mid-1953 he was in charge of a cultivation programme along the Corubal River, near the border of French Guinea, based at the Ribamar research station, north west of the village of Guilege.
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A powerful force, it stymied French expansion until 1896 when the French colonial troops defeated the last Almami, Bokar Biro Barry, dismantled the state and integrated it into their colony of French Guinea.
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He was elected as Mayor of Kissidougou when he was 31 years old, and he was elected to the National Assembly of France in January 1956 as one of three deputies representing French Guinea.
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Coffee's mass production in the Americas started when the wife of the governor for French Guinea gave her departing Brazilian lover, Francisco Polletta, flowers with hidden fertile coffee beans, as exporting them was illegal.
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The Republic of Guinea ( formerly known as French Guinea ) declared its independence from France on 2 October 1958, and the then also accredited to Guinea in 1959 until the first resident ambassador arrived in 1960.
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On 28 September 1958 a referendum was held throughout the French Union and the new constitution was approved, by universal suffrage, in all of the territories except French Guinea, which voted instead for the option of complete independence.
