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Country
  
Guinea

Time zone
  
GMT (UTC+0)

Prefecture
  
Nzérékoré Prefecture

Region
  
Nzérékoré Region

Local time
  
Wednesday 9:21 AM

Womey

Weather
  
26°C, Wind SW at 8 km/h, 86% Humidity

Womey (or Womé or Ouomé) is a town and sub-prefecture in the Nzérékoré Prefecture in the Nzérékoré Region of Guinea.

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Map of Womey, Guinea

The sub-prefecture is 494 km2 in area and has a population of 13,196 (2014 census).

Incident on 16 September 2014

On September 16, 2014, a local Guinean government team arrived in Womey to educate the population about ebola. They were set upon by local people, and later the bodies of eight of them were found in a public latrine pit.

References

Womey Wikipedia