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b_b  ·  4779 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Strange and Evil World of Equatorial Guinea
"Sipopo cost four times the annual education budget in what is perhaps the planet's most unequal society, a country where per-capita wealth exceeds Britain but three-quarters of its 675,000 citizens live on less than a dollar a day."

I suppose that this is what happens when oil hovers in the neighborhood of $100/barrel for a few years. It turns places like this from being merely lucrative into veritable diamond mines.