Photos 12 October 2015

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 traveled 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/Bloomberg

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A man watches diggers fill train carriages with bauxite at CBG's Sangaredi mine before they make the 135 kilometer journey to the port.
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Most people make a living through informal work. Here, men sell fuel in plastic bottles to motorcyclists in the northern port town of Kamsar.
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The bauxite boom will be powered by the Chinese-built 240 megawatt Kaleta dam, the biggest game-changer in Guinea. It's tripled power capacity and meant many enjoy stable electricity supply for the first time in their lives.
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Locals in Kamsar watch a bauxite train pass by. They told us that there's been little trickle down from Guinea's most important export.
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This picture captures the kind of challenges many in Conakry face every day on the main road that runs the length of Conakry's narrow peninsula.
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The peninsula of Guinea's capital, Conakry, extends like a finger into the Atlantic Ocean. It's a sprawl of moldy and crumbling low-rises, battered cars choking up waterlogged roads and about a million people in constant motion as they try to make a living.
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