Guinea

State · 1960–2026 CE · at its largest around 2024 CE

West African republic whose voters rejected membership of the French Community in 1958, making it the first French African colony to become independent. Ahmed Sékou Touré ruled it until his death in 1984.

On its lands while it lasted

Sierra Leone Civil War (1991–2002 CE): Civil war in which the Revolutionary United Front, funded partly by diamonds, committed widespread atrocities against civilians.
West African Ebola epidemic (2013–2016 CE): Largest Ebola outbreak in history, which began in Guinea in December 2013 and spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone, killing more than 11,000 people.