During his trip to Labé in March, Ambassador Simon Henshaw paid a visit to the Central Police Station and the local “House of Justice.”  The Labé Police Station has benefited from a training program for community policing led by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, which builds trust between residents and the ... Read More»

Ambassador Simon Henshaw visited the University of Labe, where Rector Mamadou Dian Gongore Diallo and other university leaders received him. Ambassador Henshaw visited the university and donated books on behalf of the United States Embassy in Conakry.  During his stay in Labé, Ambassador Simon Henshaw visited the Shoemakers’ Center of Dalaba, an association of shoemakers ... Read More»

Ambassador Simon Henshaw and Minister Mory Sangaré participated in the donation of the 100,000th pair of TOMS shoes to Guinean students on March 16 at the Blue Zone in Kaloum. American Olympic gold medalist Ron Freeman began distributing the shoes in Guinea in 2016, and through his NGO International Medalist Association, has been helping young ... Read More»

Tackling a major threat to this unique population of great apes Situated in the Lola Prefecture, the Bossou Forest Reserve forms part of the Nimba Mountain World Heritage site. It is surrounded by small hills (70-150 m high) that are covered in primary and secondary forests. Bossou and the surrounding communities provide a rare example ... Read More»

From March 5-9, 2019, trainers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Sandia National Laboratories (DOE/SNL) provided classroom and hands-on instruction on biorisk management fundamentals to 30 Guinean laboratory and biological science professionals from the Guinean public health, academic, and law enforcement sectors.  The training was held in Kindia, Guinea at the Ecole National de Santé ... Read More»