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CRISIS PROFILE: Angola's recovery
28 Nov 2005 00:00:00 GMT
Source: AlertNet
A delegate from Angola attends the World Youth and Students Festival in Venezuela , 2005.
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A delegate from Angola attends the World Youth and Students Festival in Venezuela , 2005.
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LONDON (AlertNet) - Although Angola is Africa’s second-largest oil producer and rich in diamonds, it faces huge obstacles to its recovery from a 27-year civil war which killed 1.5 million people and uprooted more than 4 million.

Nearly 70 percent of the population lives below the national poverty line. A quarter of children in Angola die before the age of five, and at least 700,000 people are dependent on food aid for survival.

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