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Diamond mine poverty in CAR - 16 Sep 09
By: aljazeeraenglish
Posted: Sep 17 09
Witnessed: 802 times
Regions: Central African Republic
Issues: Food & health & development, Health, Poverty
Tags: economic crisis, Recession, unemployment
With a population of just over four million people, the Central African Republic (CAR) is one of the planet's poorest countries - a plight made worse by the global economic downturn.
CAR's poverty exists despite rich reserves of two of the world's most sought after commodities - uranium and diamonds. However, little, if any, of the proceeds filter down to workers, who have to get by on a few dollars a day.
Al Jazeera's Andrew Simmons reports from Boda.
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