Guinea recorded an employment rate of 52% in 2025, according to the National Labour Observatory. The informal economy accounted for 77.4% of the active population, according to the ILO. Official ...

Lowy Institute researcher Alexandre Dayant said the analysis “revealed a region divided”, placing nations like Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and Solomon Islands well behind neighbours such as Nauru and ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Papua New Guinea’s prime minister says he does not know the exact size of his country’s population after a ...

There was a time not long ago when Tom Frieden looked at Conakry, the capital of Guinea, and saw the same conditions that allowed Ebola's terrible march through Monrovia and Freetown, the capitals of ...