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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Can Guinea finally emerge from decades of military rule and poverty? Sunday\u2019s elections give the West African nation a chance to strengthen its fledgling democracy. Bloomberg reporters recently traveled around the region along Guinea\u2019s 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<\/a><\/p>\n

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