From Time Magazine:
Some were actually hoping the wretched west African nation of Guinea-Bissau might have a fresh start this summer. In March, both the country's dictatorial President, Joao Bernardo Vieira, and its mighty army chief Tagme Na Waie were assassinated, creating something of a clean slate, a chance for the country to start anew with a presidential election scheduled for June 28.
But it was not to be. On June 5, a day before the election campaign was due to kick off, soldiers stormed the house of candidate Baciro Dabo and killed him. He had been planning a coup and was resisting arrest, the government says. He was assassinated in his bed, maintains his family.
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My Comment: Guinea-Bissau is a definition of a failed state, with its only source of wealth now coming from acting as a middle man for drug traffickers.
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