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Guinea Conakry governor determined to "clean" his city.
Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - The governor of garbage-strewn Conakry, M'Bemba Bangoura, Friday vowed to turn the Guinean capital into "a clean city" by using all means at his disposal.
Conakry, which has a population of about two million, no longer attracts foreign investors and tourists because of huge piles of garbage at street corners, as well as the filth and squalor that abound in the city.
Bangoura told PANA his administration would relentlessly pursue the clean-up campaign dubbed "Operation Turn Conakry Into A Clean City" to ensure "the place becomes decent for all to live in."
Bangoura urged Guineans to learn to manage garbage in an urban zone and called for the greater sensitisation of the population on waste control and management.
"We intend to set up structures and a sustained mechanism to take care of garbage management. The system would be examined and adopted to our realities," he explained.
Official statistics reveal that everyday the inhabitants of Conakry, which is divided into five communes (Kaloum, Dixinn, ...
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