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Home > Angola: Paying the price for diamonds

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Monday, September 4, 2006 - 03:00
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Human rights [2]
Issue Number: 
268 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Angola's soaring economic growth from its diamonds and oil exports comes with worsening human rights and health, two separate reports warn. Alleged problems are said to include security companies' "profoundly sadistic" human-rights violations in Angola's diamond-rich eastern region, reports the Financial Times.

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Land & Environment [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/rights/36762 [5]
Country: 
Angola [6]

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