Guéckédou

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Guéckédou or Guékédou is a town in southern Guinea near the Sierra Leone and Liberian borders. It had a population of 79,140 (as of the 1996 census) but has grown in the 21st century due to refugees fleeing the Second Liberian Civil War and the Sierra Leone Civil War. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Gueckedou_school.jpg" caption="A school in Guéckédou"] ::

The city is renowned for its large weekly market, which attracts traders from across Southern Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire.

On February 12, 2007, the town's police station was ransacked amidst the resumption of protests and strikes against President Lansana Conté.

In 2014, volunteers organized by Guéckédou's Red Cross worked in sanitation, disinfection, and monitoring efforts to help contain the 2014 West Africa Ebola outbreak. Some reported they were "encountering resistance in some villages such as Bafassa, Wassaya and Tolebengo in Guéckédou Prefecture, where rumours help fuel the flames of fear ... A main focus of the interventions involves deploying volunteers to communities to raise awareness on how to prevent the spread of the disease and, in the process, address the fear and stigma gripping many communities."{{Cite web | last = International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies | title = "I was so scared to die." Living with the fear of Ebola in West Africa - Guinea | work = ReliefWeb | accessdate = 2014-06-11 | date = 2014-06-11 | url = http://reliefweb.int/report/guinea/i-was-so-scared-die-living-fear-ebola-west-africa

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References

  2. (2022-02-10). "A Geography of Infection: Spatial Processes and Patterns in Epidemics and Pandemics". Oxford University Press.
  3. (22 June 2014). "Ebola virus disease, West Africa – update". World Health Organization.

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