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The International Herald Tribune reports that, despite its massive problems which include a powerful drug-running trade and the violent deaths of the country’s top general and president, Guinea-Bissau is coloured by a tentative optimism, with the two men who have led it through misery for years both gone. (Ed. note: when the two were killed Geneva-based fellow journalist El Hadji Gorgui Wade Ndoye wrote a moving plea to members of the Foreign Press Association, asking that we not slip into the old trap of writing about Africa only as a continent where dictators and generals are toppled: he edits Continent Premier, an online magazine in French that focuses on African issues)