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"The same cannot yet be said of neighboring Guinea, where dictatorial mismanagement and a violent power struggle combined to ruin economic opportunities in both agriculture and mining. As Figure 7-15 shows, Guinea borders the troubled countries just discussed plus Ivory Coast, and it has involved itself in the affairs of all of them—receiving in return a stream of refugees in its border zones. Guinea, with a population of 13 million, has long been under dictatorial rule and remains one of Africa’s lowest-income states. This need not be: the country possesses major deposits of bauxite (aluminum ore) and gold, can produce far more coffee and cotton than it does, and controls productive offshore fishing grounds." [Geography: Realms, Regions, and Concepts, 17th Edition, p. 307]