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Guinea-Bissau: Construction and Distribution Progress Despite Political Turbulence

Commercial activity, especially distributors of food and building materials, has grown strongly in recent times, with the predominance of funding from Turkey, whose companies are building the new Bissau International Airport and the new four-storey Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There is also greater activity of companies from Equatorial Guinea, much because of the personal relations between the president UMARO SISSOCO EMBALÓ and his counterpart TEODORO OBIANG, who has business in the hotel sector in the country and is considered a “father” for USE, with whom he frequently consults. READ MORE