Guinea's Dawn: Overcoming Hardmen, a Commodity Crash and Ebola

Can Guinea finally emerge from decades of military rule and poverty? Sunday's elections give the West African nation a chance to strengthen its fledgling democracy. Bloomberg reporters recently travelled around the region along Guinea's Atlantic coastline to speak to executives, Chinese investors, diplomats, officials and ordinary Guineans and to see the mines, ports and dams inspiring Guinea with new hope. Photographs by Waldo Swiegers for Bloomberg