{"id":3905,"date":"2010-10-19T08:58:38","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T07:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3905"},"modified":"2010-10-19T08:58:38","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T07:58:38","slug":"forgotten-world-222-guinea-bissau","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3905","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (222): Guinea-Bissau"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly Portuguese Guinea, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guinea-Bissau\">Guinea-Bissau<\/a> in west Africa won independence from Portugal in 1974 after a long struggle spearheaded by the left-wing African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC).<\/p>\n<p>Once hailed as a potential model for African development, Guinea-Bissau &#8211; a nation of a mere 1.6 million &#8211; is now one of the poorest countries in the world. It has a massive foreign debt and an economy which relies heavily on foreign aid. The country&#8217;s vital cashew nut crop provides a modest living for most of Guinea-Bissau&#8217;s farmers and is the main source of foreign exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formerly Portuguese Guinea, Guinea-Bissau in west Africa won independence from Portugal in 1974 after a long struggle spearheaded by the left-wing African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC). Once hailed as a potential model for African development, Guinea-Bissau &#8211; a nation of a mere 1.6 million &#8211; is now one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3905"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3945,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3905\/revisions\/3945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}