Tired of War; Guinea-Bissau, Guinea and Sierra Leone  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 406 no. 8825 (Mar. 2013), page SS5-SS7.
Topik: International; War; Economic Conditions; Living Conditions; Governmental Reform

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The headlights of the bus pick out the wet figure of a soldier with a gun over his shoulder standing among droopy bushes at the first checkpoint after the border. He hurries out of the rain into the warm bus and almost as an afterthought announces he will escort it on the short journey through his country. We will make a stop, he says, but nobody can get off. This was nothing unusual: the tiny country of 1.5m has seen five coups in the past decade. No president has served a full term since independence from Portugal in 1974. But this rarely poses a problem for buses from Senegal to Guinea, the country's bigger neighbours, and then on to Sierra Leone and Liberia. The only change to the schedule today is that at the regular stop in the capital, Bissau, passengers may get on but not off. The soldier wrings out his cap and says he is sorry for the inconvenience: You know how it is. The locals nod, then start to harangue him. Guinea-Bissau fits the picture of an African state rendered dysfunctional by violent disorder.Yet that picture has become less common. Several big conflicts across the continent have died down. What has changed to make Africa less violent?

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