What Is needed is to address the root causes of the regions problemspoverty and poor health care. ignorance. and injustice. unemployment. and stagnation. Yet. we pour more tax dollars into the civil war in Angola than into develoment aid for any nation In subSaharan Africa. The human cost of the war is appallingthe United Nations estimates that over 500.000 Angolans have died in the war. including 330.000 children. In a nation of 9 million people. 1.5 millionnearly onefifth of the populationhave been displaced and 500.000 have become refugees. 40.000 have lost limbs from hidden land mines. Young children bear the heaviest burden. UNICEF estimates that a child under 5 dies every 3.5 minutesover 400 each day.
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