Equatorial Guinea is one of the world´s top oil produces in the
world, and yet it still lives in devastating poverty. They call
it the the dictatorship that no one talks about. Even though
the government earns billions of dollars in oil every year, 60
percent of its population lives on less than one US dollar a
day.
Many opportunities for job services in the oil industries has
risen, but if you do not have a membership card with the
presidential ruling of the Democratic Party of Guinea, you are
not allowed to fill in those positions.
Less than half the population has access to clean drinking
water, and twenty percent of children die before the age of
five. Medical consultation is approximately sixty US dollars
even though the monthly government minimum wage is 186 US
dollars.
Oil has only made us poorer, states a farmer on Bioko island.
They are dumped in slums with no water or electricity.
International journalists are forbidden from taking pictures of
the hundreds of shanty towns spread in and around the capital
without government-issued accreditation.
Equatorial Guinea suffers from the economic phenomenon of Dutch
disease, where increased oil revenue is linked with a rise in
government corruption and a decline in the manufacturing
sector.
Its amazing that people and governement officials can get away
with something like this. You would think that maybe they would
have a conscious while they are living like kings and their
people can barely see their babies and children survive.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80768
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