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| LUANDA |
Manuel Zacarias lives in a 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, ... |
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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 ... |
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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.
More than half of all Salvadorans live in poverty, from 47.5 percent prior to the January 13 and February 13 earthquakes, to 51.2 percent of El Salvador's population of 6.3 million.
Some 225,000 people joined the ranks of the poor, while the situation of 200,000 others worsened from one of poverty to extreme poverty.
The quakes, which measured 7.7 ... |
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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.
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