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Residents hurled bottles and stones at police, who responded by firing rubber bullets and teargas. Smoke from burning tyres filled the air as thousands marched in a show of anger at poor services in townships in Johannesburg, Western Cape and the north-eastern region of Mpumalanga.
The unrest comes as frustrations boil over at the government's record, 15 years after apartheid, at providing townships with basic services such as electricity, running water, housing and sanitation.
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- Koos Bezuidenhout, chief executive of the workers' interest group the United Association of SA, warned that "dissatisfaction with poor service delivery or the complete lack thereof at municipal level is now spreading like a veld fire through South Africa".
- Fifteen years after the ANC won its first election, more than 1 million South Africans still live in shacks, many without access to electricity or running water. The gap between rich and poor is also growing. Nearly 3m houses have been built, but the allocation has been prone to nepotism and corruption.

19 Jul 09

مصر العليا و مصر السفلى « بهدوء

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Egypt Class Poverty Capitalism

10 Jun 09

ZORIAH - A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLOG: Guest Photographer/Photojournalist: G.M.B. Akash - Cyclone Alia - Bangladesh

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03 May 09

Egypt and beyond: Swine Flu Origins and Slum Scare

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29 Apr 09

ZORIAH - A PHOTOJOURNALIST AND WAR PHOTOGRAPHER'S BLOG: Kenya - Child Poverty - Part Two

Powerful pix..

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Kenya Children Poverty humanrights photography

28 Apr 09

What’s behind killer swine flu?|2May09|Socialist Worker

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Swine flu Poverty health WHO

Both the 1957 and 1968 flu pandemics are believed to have originated from the mixing of bird and human viruses inside pigs.
Concentrated poverty is one of the most important issues in what happens to a flu outbreak – how it is spread and who it hits.
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- Rather than working together to produce a vaccination for each new flu strain, which is unprofitable for the pharmaceutical companies because many new flu strains don’t reach pandemic level, governments tend to rely on generic anti-virals such as Tamiflu.

23 Mar 09

جريدة البديل - وحدة الأبحاث في «الأيكونوميست» تحذر من ثورات اجتماعية في 95 دولة من بينها مصر بسبب الأزمة العالمية

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20 Mar 09

Daily News Egypt - Egypt pressured to end underground organ trade

Egypt is one of a half dozen countries identified by the World Health Organization as organ-trafficking hot spots.

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Egypt humanrights Organs Health Crime Poverty A7a WHO

27 Jan 09

Australian government hopes recession will produce military “recruitment bonanza”

The Australian newspaper carried a front-page article on January 6 expressing satisfaction that rising unemployment could spur youth and displaced skilled workers to sign up to the military, providing a "recruitment bonanza" for the Australian Defence For

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24 Jan 09