Guinea: Legislative elections to be held Sept. 29

The squabble over the legislative election started soon after the presidential race, with the opposition vowing they will never allow the ruling party to “steal” the race again.

Decades of unrest in Guinea had turned it into one of Africa’s poorest countries. That is a source of deep frustration to Guinea’s 11.4 million people, whose country is not only rich in gold, diamonds and timber but also has the world’s largest reserves of bauxite, the raw ingredient used to make aluminum.

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