Word: cambamba
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...baubles as silver-plated ashtrays and a $7,000 candelabra. Yet 70% of Angolans still live below the country's poverty line. Cholera and malaria are rife, and child mortality rates are among the worst in the world. A kilometer away from Nova Vida, in the shanty town of Cambamba, children play in open sewers, and piles of burning garbage shroud shacks in foul-smelling clouds of smoke. As Valdemir puts it: "The rich use mineral water. For us there is no water. No electricity or sanitation either...
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