Guinea Unrest
Well the news out of Guinea hasn’t been good for a week now. The eventual clash between the military goverment and the opposition seemed inevitable, but I think everyone hoped it would be less violent. It’s hard to imagine so many deaths in a city I just left a few months ago. And the latest news is that Peace Corps has officially decided to pull the plug and is evacuating all volunteers to Bomako, the capital of Mali just east of Guinea’s border. What a waste, all the effort so many people put in to so many villages, but hopefully something each person did will linger and have some lasting good. I know the world map I helped paint will be there for years to come, as small a thing as that may be.
So now all the volunteers will hopefully be safely spirited out of the country and move on. And perhaps in the meantime Guinea will sort out its political ills and find a way to hold safe and legitimate elections for a country and people that desperately need a stable and supportive government.
