GUINEA ENCOURAGES MALAYSIA TO OPEN UNIVERSITIES IN GUINEA

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 20 (Bernama) -- Malaysian universities have been
encouraged to open campuses in Guinea, West Africa.

In making the call, the country's Minister of Higher Education and Scientic
Research, Georges Gandhi Faraquet Tounkara, said many students from Guinea were
heading to Malaysia to pursue studies at diploma and degree levels.

"With the setting up of more universities in Guinea, we hope to prevent the
brain drain which the country is currently facing," Tounkara said, adding that
he would meet Malaysia's Higher Education Minister Mohamed Khaled Nordin to
discuss the matter.

He said this at a press conference on the second day of the Fifth Islamic
Conference of Higher Education and Scientific Research here Wednesday.

On business relationships between the Malaysian and Guinea governments, he said
his country would like to revive and re-activate protocols on various agreements
signed between the two governments in the mid-1990s during Dr Mahathir Mohamad's
premiership.

Tounkara said Guinea could learn a lot from Malaysia because the country lacked
power supply.
-- BERNAMA