<s>[INST] I see. So tell me something about Guinea Bissau

A small, tropical nation in West Africa, Guinea-Bissau, is a hidden gem which has experienced a tumultuous past. Following independence from Portugal in 1974, the nation plunged into a long-running conflict between rebels and troops for over a decade.
 
 Recently, the Guinea-Bissau government and the Senegambia Confederation have been working on a cooperation project that allows Senegambia to the beach town Cumura, which belongs to the Guinea-Bissau exclave, from other parts of the country.

The capital, Bissau, is a poverty-stricken African metropolis. High levels of unemployment and illegal activity have fostered a sense of lawlessness. Bissau also features some interesting colonial architecture, has been touched by the cashew industry (cashews are their principal source of income), and is an important financial and economic hub for the western Sahel region.

I scrolled past a few lines, but I gained a sense of it in my reading.

It seems like they've had a somewhat tumultuous past, especially with the conflict that went on for over a decade, and it's a bit of a troubled city that faces high levels of poverty and illegal activity.

However, despite all of that, it seems like they're trying to move forward and make improvements, like with the cooperation project with the Senegambia Confederation.

Do you think Guinea-Bissau could be a future economic powerhouse in the western Sahel region?[/INST]