GUINEA BISSAU

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Local name: Guine-Bissau
Capital: Bissau
Government: republic
Currency: Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (XOF)
Official language: Portuguese
Other languages spoken: Crioulo, African languages

Brief History. In 1994, 20 years after independence from Portugal, the country's first multiparty legislative and presidential elections were held. An army uprising that triggered a bloody civil war in 1998, created hundreds of thousands of displaced persons. The president was ousted by a military junta in May 1999. An interim government turned over power in February 2000 when opposition leader Kumba Yala took office following two rounds of transparent presidential elections. Guinea-Bissau's transition back to democracy will be complicated by its crippled economy devastated in the civil war.

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