Stability, anti-drug fight at stake in Bissau polls
Guinea-Bissau’s parliamentary elections on Sunday will test the stability of one of the world’s poorest states and its mettle to resist the penetration of powerful cocaine-traffickers on West Africa’s “Coke Coast”. The small former Portuguese colony, whose main exports are cashew nuts and fish, has a history of coups, mutinies and uprisings since independence in 1974. (Full Story)