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Kankan

American  
[kahn-kahn] / kɑ̃ˈkɑ̃ /

noun

  1. a city in E Guinea.


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Merck & Co's COVID-19 antiviral treatment molnupiravir is expected to be launched in the Chinese market on Friday, Sinopharm's president Liu Yong was quoted as saying by state-backed media outlet Kankan News on Wednesday.

From Reuters ● Jan. 11, 2023

The Associated Press reported the bizarre story Friday, saying unidentified robbers stopped a taxi van on its 165-mile journey from central Kankan prefecture in Guinea to a medical testing site in Gueckedou.

From US News ● Nov. 21, 2014

It was traveling from Kankan prefecture in central Guinea to a test site in Gueckedou, in the south.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 21, 2014

Mr. Koita said he grew up one of nine children in the city of Kankan.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2014

The peak of their influence and power was achieved in the early fourteenth century under Mansa Kankan Musa who ruled Mali for a quarter of a century.

From The Black Experience in America by Norman Coombs

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