On October 14, 2025, the Ministry of Transport of the Republic of Guinea, with support from the French Development Agency (AFD), officially launched the Strengthening Meteorological and Climate Services Project (CLIMAGUI).
CREWS ASW Guinea, through the World Meteorolgical Organization (WMO), has enabled the National Agency of Meteorology (ANM) Guinea to be established in time to start the AFD investment project. This project has supported the development of a strategic plan and an ensemble of institutional and legal documents to ensure proper administration of the Agency.
In addition, CREWS has supported the temporary housing of ANM since July 2024 after the devastating explosion in a fuel depot in Conakry on 17 December 2023, which rendered the existing building unusable. This has helped the ANM continue its operation despite the challenges. During this timeframe, ANM Guinea started issuing forecasts and warnings from its website, and became the first meteorological service in Africa to have its warnings disseminated by Google Alerts. .
This CLIMAGUI project will continue to support ANM in modernizing meteorological infrastructure, enhancing technical capacities, and delivering high-quality climate services tailored to users’ needs, helping reduce the vulnerability of socio-economic sectors to climate risks.
As highlighted by Mohamed Bakayoko, Secretary General of the Ministry of Transport, CLIMAGUI reflects the Guinean Government’s strong commitment to modernizing national meteorology and building resilience for sustainable development.️
The CREWS ASW Guinea Project made it possible for ANM Guinée to not only continue their operations but strengthen their met services through the creation of a strategic plan, a legal and institutional framework, a website, an alert composer in CAP format, a data dissemination tool (WIS2box, cf https://anmeteo.gov.gn/stations) and a blossoming quality management system (QMS). Without this work, the requirements for the launch of the AFD CLIMAGUI project would not have been met and as such CREWS played an essential role in the achievement of a stronger and more resilient Guinea.
– Jiska Manicus, WMO