Most of the country's railroad tracks need repair. Conakry has an international airport, and smaller airports operate at Kankan, Labe, and other cities. Conakry and Kamsar serve as international shipping ports. The government of Guinea controls the country's newspapers and radio and television services. The country's largest general-interest newspaper is published several times a week.
Many people own radios, but few have television sets.
Television reception is limited to Conakry and a few other cities. Stone tools found in several places throughout what is now Guinea indicate that people have lived in the area since prehistoric times. Early inhabitants hunted and gathered wild fruit. By about 1000 B.C., people had begun to raise livestock and grow crops, and agricultural societies largely replaced hunting communities. Parts of Guinea fell under the control or influence of several empires from the A.D. 1000's to 1500's.