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C. According to the CIA World Factbook, 40.1% of Nigeria’s population has income below national poverty line. And, fuel prices have more than tripled over the last year as the government moved to end a fuel subsidy that gave Nigerians access to some of the cheapest gasoline in Africa.
D. With a metropolitan population of 21 million, Lagos in southwestern Nigeria is the most populous urban area in Africa. Lagos also was the capital of Nigeria before the government moved in 1991 to Abuja near the center of the country.
B. The explosion in Cap Haitien, Haiti, also injured 120 people. Still recovering from an earthquake four months earlier, Haiti was unable to adequately treat victims of the explosion with its hospitals under-supplied and in disarray.
A. From 1885 to 1908, many atrocities were committed under the absolute rule of King Leopold II of Belgium. His administrators enforced extreme measures to collect natural rubber for export, resulting in a population decline estimated somewhere between 1.5 million and 13 million people.