Guinea-Bissau: cash crisis may prevent elections

Legislative elections in Guinea-Bissau, which are scheduled for July 6, may not take place because of the political and economic crisis in the former Portuguese colony. “Unless the president decides otherwise, the commission is committed to conducting the legislative elections in July,” says Filomeno Lobo de Pina, the Executive Secretary of the National Electoral Commission. Guinea-Bissau's economy is in dire crisis, with public sector workers on strike.