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| LUANDA |
Manuel Zacarias refuses to leave his sheet-metal shack in Luanda's Boa Vista shantytown, clinging to the hills overlooking the capital and the city's upmarket embassy row.
The city says Boa Vista is a health and environmental disaster, and wants to move Zacarias and the 11,000 families here out of sight to a new tent city, but so far they have resisted increasing pressure to go.
"I've lived here since 1981. We will only leave Boa Vista if the authorities give us something better -- new houses," Zacarias said, standing before his shack.
For city authorities, the standoff over Boa Vista has degenerated into a mini-conflict in this war-ravaged nation, after police tried to forcibly evict residents last week and ended up killing ... |
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| BLANTYRE |
Malawi marked its 37th year of independence from Britain on Friday, with ceremonies that highlighted the nation's ongoing struggles against poverty and corruption.
President Bakili Muluzi delivered an independence day speech at a packed stadium with 20,000 people in the ... |
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| SAN SALVADOR |
Nearly a quarter of a million Salvadorans joined the ranks of those living in extreme poverty, as a result of two major earthquakes earlier this year, the UN Development Program said Thursday.
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| WASHINGTON |
The seven large industrial economies and international lending institutions should focus on achieving "a new level of success in reducing poverty," US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill said Thursday.
Speaking to reporters ahead of ... |
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| MOSCOW |
Russia's parliament gave initial backing Thursday to a new labor code which stipulates for the first time that employers may not offer salaries lower than the government recognized poverty level.
The State Duma lower house of ... |
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| ROME |
In the build up to the G8 summit the Italian parliament has adopted two motions that ask for continued dialogue on the environment with the US and the cancellation of debt for poor countries.
Along with other EU countries the ... |
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| JAKARTA |
A new multi-billion dollar oil and gas agreement between Australia and East Timor won't make the fledgling state rich but will give its people a chance to build a future, the territory's chief negotiator said Wednesday.
"Fundamentally this means the difference between being mired in poverty and dependent on foreign aid, and being able to make progress," East Timor's cabinet member for political affairs and the Timor Sea, Peter Galbraith, told
The agreement, struck late Tuesday, guarantees East Timor 90 percent of royalties from oil and gas ... |
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| CAPE TOWN |
Thirteen South African organisations on Tuesday called on government to pay every citizen a basic income grant of 100 randdollars) "from cradle to grave" to alleviate widespread poverty.
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